-IANS   The Lokpal bill which is before parliament is only one of the many ways of tackling the menace of Corruption, said Nandan Nilekani, chairperson of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Friday. 'I think if we want to do something about Corruption, we have to do it in a much broader manner, where the Lokpal bill just becomes one of many things (tackling Corruption),' said Nilekani in an interview to...

You said that the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies conducted a survey asking people what they felt about street protest. What did you find? One of the first national representative surveys was the National Election Study held in 1971. This is when a protest culture was beginning to take shape in the country. There was the Naxalite movement and also a time when the Congress was dislodged for the...

Until about a year ago, the number of Indians who knew the name of Kisan Baburao Hazare, popularly known as Anna Hazare, ran into a few thousand -- small change in a country of a billion people. The former army driver was known for his peculiar experiments of social reform in a village in Maharashtra, in western India. He had received national awards for his social work. By the end of...

The Gandhi topis, the non-violent crowds, the banners and other symbols of protest, including tonsuring of heads, meditating mendicants, patriotic songs and fervour and, of course, the fasts, are seen as a throwback to the days when the Mahatma exerted enormous and unquestioned moral authority over the ruling government, political leaders and the populace. Most references to the “revolution” started by Anna Hazare and his group, now immortalised as Team...

-The Indian Express   The annual report of the Central Vigilance Commission carrying details of investigation in the multi-crore Commonwealth Games scam is likely to be tabled in the ongoing session of Parliament. Sources said the report, which will have minute details of all probes undertaken by the anti-Corruption watchdog between January and December 2010, has been submitted to President Pratibha Patil on June 30. "The report has been given to the President as...