Campaigns

Small actions that are safe to take, repeated until they are ordinary

We do not ask anyone to confront an official. Confrontation is risky and it is usually the person with the least power who pays for it. We ask for the small, documentable act instead.

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Each one reduces to a single instruction that a person can follow without training, without a lawyer, and without putting themselves at risk.

Active since 2024

Ask For The Receipt

A demand that cannot be recorded is a demand that cannot be defended.

A public habit campaign built on a single instruction: ask for a receipt for every payment made to a public office, however small.

Petty extraction survives because it leaves no paper. The campaign does not ask anyone to confront an official or refuse a payment — both can be unsafe. It asks only for the receipt, because the request itself changes the arithmetic, and because a documented payment is the only kind that can later be questioned.

What we ask

Ask for a receipt for every payment, including small ones
Note the date, the office, and the counter
Keep the paper even when the amount seems trivial

Active since 2025

Know Before You Sign

Read it, or have it read to you, before your name goes on it.

A literacy campaign against the signature obtained in a hurry — on a blank form, an unread statement, or a document in a language the signer does not read.

A signature on a document you have not read is the single most common way a person loses ground in a dispute they would otherwise have won. The campaign circulates one page in four languages explaining the right to read, the right to have a document read aloud, and the right to refuse to sign a blank.

What we ask

Never sign a blank or partially filled form
Ask for the document in a language you read, or ask for it to be read aloud
Keep a copy of anything you sign

Active since 2025

The First Appeal Matters

Most RTI requests die at the refusal because nobody appeals.

A campaign to close the gap between RTI applications filed and first appeals actually pursued after a refusal or a silence.

The Right to Information Act builds in a remedy for refusal and for non-response, and it is free. Most applicants never use it, usually because nobody told them the clock had started. The campaign publishes the timeline, a template, and a plain explanation of what a first appeal can and cannot achieve.

What we ask

Diarise the thirty-day mark when you file
Treat silence as a refusal and appeal it
Use the free first appeal before considering anything else

Concluded

Campaigns that have run their course

A campaign ends when the material stops being distributed, not when the idea stops being true. These remain accurate.

Closed · 2022

Rights At The Station

What the law guarantees at a police station, on one card.

The card carried the right to be informed of grounds, the right to inform a relative, the right to legal representation, the rules around the timing of production before a magistrate, and the separate protections for women and for minors. It was printed in four languages and distributed through the mandal circuit.

Carry it further

A campaign works when someone repeats it in a room we will never enter

Take the material, run it in your locality, translate it, print it. None of it is ours to withhold.

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