Centre For Civil Society

As CCS turns 18, Gurcharan Das shares his views on India

Centre for Civil Society was founded on 15 August 1997, on the 50th anniversary of India’s political independence to signify the necessity of personal, economic and social freedom from the omnipresent Indian state. We advance social…

S V Raju: The Man who held Freedom First

I first came to know about S V Raju as an editor of Freedom First, the magazine that I have been subscribing for more than 20 years. He was the person who kept the flame of liberalism and the Swatantra Party alive in India. As a young liberal, the…

Private Initiatives in Education: James Tooley at CCS

“The common are intrigued by the uncommon while the wise are intrigued by the commonplace” — Confucian proverb

If the above adage be held true, James Tooley would be wiser than most on education in the Third…

Researching Reality Internship 2010

The Research Internship Program Researching Reality provides a greatly valued and needed learning experience in real-life application of social and economic principles and in teaching college students the skills of research, analysis, writing, and above all critical…

CCS Impact:

Recently, at a RTI seminar, the Chief Information Commissioner, Wajahat Habibullah, dwelt at some length on the relevance of digitizing government records. In the course of his deliberation, he said that computerizing government records would reduce the burden on government officials.