{"id":4915,"date":"2008-04-04T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2008-04-04T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T20:37:00","slug":"the-irony-of-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-irony-of-government\/","title":{"rendered":"The Irony of Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Central_info_chief_clueless_on_RTI_pleas\/articleshow\/2924268.cms\" title=\"Central info chief clueless on RTI pleas\"><i>The Times of India<\/i> reports<\/a> that the Central Information Commission, which is supposed to make sure that public authorities provide information about themselves to the public, lacks basic information about itself.<\/p>\n<p>I know bureaucracies everywhere are the same, but isn&#8217;t it a pity that Kafka and Borges weren&#8217;t born in India? Such fun they would have had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Central_info_chief_clueless_on_RTI_pleas\/articleshow\/2924268.cms\" title=\"Central info chief clueless on RTI pleas\"><i>The Times of India<\/i> reports<\/a> that the Central Information Commission, which is supposed to make sure that public authorities provide information about themselves to the public, lacks basic information about itself.<\/p>\n<p>I know bureaucracies everywhere are the same, but isn&#8217;t it a pity that Kafka and Borges weren&#8217;t born in India? Such fun they would have had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Irony of Government - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-irony-of-government\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Irony of Government - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Times of India reports that the Central Information Commission, which is supposed to make sure that public authorities provide information about themselves to the public, lacks basic information about itself. 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