Education matters a great deal, but information plays a separate and equally important part in making democracy work more effectively in diverse contexts. The state enacts law after law-there is a plethora of pro-poor legislation in India-but the state does not make the effort to inform citizens about the law’s provisions. ……………………………………………………………. Misdeeds go unreported, because the public does not know how misdeeds are legally defined and practically detected.