In a major victory for Indian citizens, who raised a unified voice against the proposed Amendments to the Right to Information Act, the Indian Government decided to withdraw the changes to the existing Act, and promised to follow the democratic process before taking any action on this issue in the future. In response, anti-corruption campaigners, Anna Hazare and Sandeep Pandey, who were on indefinite hunger-strikes near Pune and in New Delhi, respectively, called off their fasts; while at the same time, promised to launch a massive nationwide RTI awareness drive. 

Month-long protests, online signature drives, fax and email actions, global relay fasts, all over India and overseas, culminated in the Government retracting the proposed changes to the RTI Act, which sought to exempt "file-notings" from the purview of the Act. This amendment would have kept the trail of decision making process under covers, thereby providing refuge to corrupt officials.

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Nirveek Bhattacharjee, Baltimore