RTI without Information Commissioners: Hazaribagh protests!   Hazaribagh: the Indian state plays the dubious role of first putting in place a Right to Information Act , and then making the process so cumbersome that only the very gutsy are able to go through the exercise of obtaining information from the various departments. If that is not bad enough, when the RTI activists come under attack from the affected parties, there is often no one to protect them. This is as much true of Bihar as many other states, not to mention the centre. The idea is to maintain the RTI as a sort of showpiece...