India Abroad - December 30, 2011

PEOPLE’S WAR

Anna Hazare in New Delhi, December 10
Anna Domini

ADNAN ABIDI/REU TERS

One man and a movement that brought India’s
ruling alliance to its knees
In 1911, when Mohandas Karam- chand Gandhi was perfecting his Passive Resistance movement in South Africa against the apartheid regime, which he later successively deployed against the British colo- nial power in India as Satyagraha,
little could he have imagined that 100 years
later, an old man wearing his trademark
topi would employ the same tactic against
the party he forged into an instrument of
Indian independence.

SAISURESH
SIVASWAMY
In its 100th
anniversary as
the capital of
colonial India,
will Delhi
become the
graveyard of
yet another
confidence; a party president who has no
views on anything; an heir apparent who
doesn’t enjoy the title.

dynasty?

Saisuresh Sivaswamy is Senior Editorial Director,
Rediff.com

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