India, June 22 -- After the protests in March, earlier this year, it was only a matter of time before the FCRA amendment bill was pushed again. At the time, political pundits had alleged that the bill was not brute-forced through owing to the upcoming elections in the South. To no one's surprise, the bill is slated to rear its ugly head again in the coming Monsoon session of the Parliament.

However, a recent letter by Karnataka's Minister for Information Technology and Home Affairs, Shri Priyank Kharge, to RSS's Mohan Bhagwat and the ensuing reply present an opportunity for a study in contrasts.

On the one hand, the Government seeks to randomly appoint a "Designated Authority" with discretionary (read: "at its whims and fancies") power...