Mass protests have, historically, been used by the truly powerless. But beginning with the Jessica Lall verdict, there's a change in the profile of the protestor and in the nature of the protest itself. Aided by media, it is now the middle class that is leading the charge.
It is spring again for protests laced with the spirit of civil disobedience, or so it would seem. The recent success of the Anna Hazare-led movement has given rise to many hopes that the citizen does not have to wait outside the doorstep of a moribund political system, hoping for a few scraps of responsible governance to fall her way. Direct action is possible and can force the political machinery to move even if it does so with an air of creaky reluctance.
BY ANIMA SINHA
PGDM - 2 sem
It is spring again for protests laced with the spirit of civil disobedience, or so it would seem. The recent success of the Anna Hazare-led movement has given rise to many hopes that the citizen does not have to wait outside the doorstep of a moribund political system, hoping for a few scraps of responsible governance to fall her way. Direct action is possible and can force the political machinery to move even if it does so with an air of creaky reluctance.
BY ANIMA SINHA
PGDM - 2 sem
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