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A book with important insights to tap into. -- Business Line Resisting Reform? offers a brave alternative, of real democracy and how this has been sidelined to make way for companies to take over the government.... The struggle for water, it seems, is a struggle for democracy too and thanks to [the authors] this understanding of water is so clearly depicted in their book. -- The Pioneer This is one of the best books on the subject of privatisation of water that I have read in a long time..... The book is about Bangalore, but its importance goes far beyond the Bangalore (even the Indian) context. -- The Hindu The book deserves praises for several reasons. First, it is very well written...the authors also deserve praise for the manner in which they construct the story of the city's water privatization, building on anecdotal evidence, extracts from the media and personal experience of one of the authors. Further, it provides a valuable addition to the literature on water policy process in India, a body of work relatively underdeveloped.... For this reason the book should interest students of governance and public policy, the activist as much as the serious academic. -- The Book Review

The book deserves praises for several reasons. First, it is very well written...the authors also deserve praise for the manner in which they construct the story of the city's water privatization, building on anecdotal evidence, extracts from the media and personal experience of one of the authors. Further, it provides a valuable addition to the literature on water policy process in India, a body of work relatively underdeveloped... For this reason the book should interest students of governance and public policy, the activist as much as the serious academic. -- The Book Review This is one of the best books on the subject of privatisation of water that I have read in a long time... The book is about Bangalore, but its importance goes far beyond the Bangalore (even the Indian) context. -- The Hindu Resisting Reform? offers a brave alternative, of real democracy and how this has been sidelined to make way for companies to take over the government... The struggle for water, it seems, is a struggle for democracy too and thanks to [the authors] this understanding of water is so clearly depicted in their book. -- The Pioneer A book with important insights to tap into. -- Business Line

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Kshithij Urs is a medical graduate from the Bangalore University and has a Masters degree in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has been an activist and a campaigner for the urban poor, the urban homeless and children in difficult circumstances since 1993. He has contributed significantly in building an award winning organisation—APSA (The Association for Promoting Social Action) that works with the poor in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. He is also the director of Ants Eye View, a grassroots media centre. Presently, he heads the Karnataka regional office of ActionAid, an international NGO that works in over 40 countries around the world. He is also a founder member of the Campaign against Water Privatisation in Karnataka and has written various articles for the print media in India. Richard Whittell is from the UK. He lived in Bangalore during the bulk of events in the book. He is currently making a film about the UK Government’s Department for International Development and the opposition to its work in India.

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