Ashwini has been practising journalism for over 15 years. He is considered a credible resource person on India\u2019s governance, bureaucracy, anti-corruption and the Right to Information (RTI) Act-related subjects. Many of his stories, done on the basis of information obtained from RTI queries, have been raised in the Indian Parliament too. He was also a guest speaker at the \u2018Global Inequalities and Extremism\u2019 conference during the Global Media Forum organized by Deutsche Welle in 2018 at Bonn in Germany. He is an alumnus of the US-based East West Centre and Asia Journalism Fellowship (AJF) organized by the Institute of Policy Studies under the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. Currently, he is working as Assistant Editor with the Press Trust of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This first-of-its-kind book by a journalist covering bureaucracy lists the ailments of India\u2019s administrative system from a common man\u2019s point of view. It delves into the pain faced by the lesser privileged in accessing governance in our country. The book highlights the reasons behind this alleged notoriety. The possible causes of the rampant organized corruption in some (if not all) property registry offices, RTOs, civic authorities among other departments, the visible red tape, ineffectiveness of the administration in ensuring ease of accessing governance and the existence of unprofessional approach from \u2018public servants\u2019 towards the public are also discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[69,71,88],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-10283","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-new-arrivals","product_cat-non-fiction","product_cat-politics","pa_book-author-ashwini-shrivastava","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/10283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=10283"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=10283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}