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Sunday Editorial- Anna, hold your fast at Gandhi Maidan, Patna, forget Jantar Mantar: and let Delhi come to you!
Sunday Editorial
Anna, hold your fast at Gandhi Maidan, Patna, forget Jantar Mantar: and let Delhi come to you!
By Ratnakar Tripathy
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The idea seems patently absurd, doesn’t it? But look at it hard enough and long enough and it will begin to make sense.
Is the purpose of the imminent fast to gather around the king’s palace and wave one’s fists in anger in the face of the deaf ruler? Or does the symbolic act of fasting aim at continuing with an unending conversation among the citizens of India about corruption, misuse of power and criminal inaction? It is probably both. But what is more...