First of all, I am worried that the Anna movement is the beginning of anti-politics in India. It is becoming ever so clear that the national struggle against corruption is increasingly becoming a cradle of rightwing ideas and Hindutva organizations.
First of all, I am worried that the Anna movement is the beginning of anti-politics in India. It is becoming ever so clear that the national struggle against corruption is increasingly becoming a cradle of rightwing ideas and Hindutva organizations.
In a climate where minority rights campaigners are subjected to an onslaught of violence and intimidation in Pakistan the international community must support civil society practitioners on the ground.
Civil war leaves Sri Lankan woman vulnerable - An AlJazeera reportage.
More than 80,000 are said to have been widowed in war-affected areas of the island nation.
Hazare has been projected as a messiah and a parallel national power centre. His team demands that its bill be instantly passed in its pristine form – on pain of the government being toppled. This subverts debate and imposes the will of a handful of people on the nation. Team Hazare members openly question even parliament’s legislative supremacy.
The Anna Hazare agitation is showing signs of becoming a political and social monster. There are several disturbing elements already in evidence, perhaps more disturbing than the awfulness of corruption. Whatever one thinks of the anti-corruption bill drafted by the government, the agitation, by the day, is growing scarier. There is a combustible mix here of hero worship, cult propagation, populist absolutism and irrational exuberance, mass hysteria, de-politicization, militarization, and, increasingly, signs that religion and agitation politics are being intermeshed.
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