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Google News: BREAKINGVIEWS-Unravelling India, Part 2: Corruption
[TrustLaw] - Over the past year, India has been transfixed by a campaign led by Anna Hazare to force the government to create an ombudsman which would prosecute corrupt politicians and bureaucrats. Hazare's initial hunger strikes brought millions of sympathisers
Google News: REUTERS MAGAZINE-Chrystia Freeland: The one percent war
[Reuters AlertNet] - The same class struggle was on display in India, where veteran social activist Anna Hazare's anti-corruption hunger strike was hailed as the political awakening of the prospering Indian urban middle class. And it could be seen last month in Moscow
Counting the billions: India starts to empower its people
www.independent.co.uk
[The Independent] - He sees a clear parallel between what he is doing and the recent anti-corruption movement that has gathered momentum in India, led by the social activist Anna Hazare, whose demand for a national ombudsman captured the attention and the imagination of
Google News: Beware the 'gush-up gospel' behind India's billionaires
[Financial Times] - The largely middle-class, overtly nationalist anti-corruption movement in India led by Anna Hazare is a good example. A round-the-clock, corporate-sponsored media campaign proclaimed it to be “the voice of the people”.
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