A number of posts I found interesting and informative. Please also read Amit Varma's post, Anna's Song, where he has put together a similar selection (warning: links to this blog) and Prajnya's page dedicated the Lok Pal debate, which has a large number of links from different perspectives.
In no particular order:
India needs reforms, not a super babu - Kanchan Gupta - Daily Pioneer
Is there a teaching moment we're missing today? - Swarna Rajagopalan (personal blog)
I'd rather not be Anna - Arundhati Roy - The Hindu
Rupees, Annas And Vice - Gautam Patel (personal blog, but a piece that has appeared in the TOI's Mirror set of city newspapers)
Why Anna Hazare is wrong and Lok Pal a bad idea - Nitin Pai - (personal blog, The Acorn, part of The National Interest)
Of the few, by the few and Time to step back (both by Pratap Bhanu Mehta, in Indian Express)
A thinktank brings Anna the eyeballs - Rahul Kanwal - India Today
The Making of an Authority: Anna Hazare in Ralegan Siddhi - Mukul Sharma - Kafila (a collective blog)
The dangers of a movement - Ranjit Hoskote - Tehelka
The Insurgent - Mehboob Jeelani - Caravan
Jan Lok Pal: unconstitutional, unnecessary - Amba Salelkar - Pragati (part of The National Interest)
Hazare is no Gandhi - Salil Tripathi - The Daily Star
Reign of the Tin Men - Shoma Chaudhury with Revati Laul, The third flight path - Shoma Chaudhury, with an interview with Aruna Roy and Lokpal: An option without a fast or fuss - Revati Laul (all Tehelka)
Answering Anna’s critics: 10 posers and rebuttals - R Jagannathan - Firstpost
Protesters We Like: Anna, Arundhati and the doublespeak of dissent - Lakshmi Chaudhry - Firstpost
Hazare's solution is no solution at all - Aakar Patel Friday Times
Dreams at the barricades - Mihir Sharma - Indian Express
Hazare, Khwahishein Aisi: Desiring a new politics, after Anna Hazare and beyond corruption - Shuddhabrata Sengupta - Kafila
Are we missing anything? Please leave links in the comments. Thank you.
Added later
A patriarch for the nation? - The nation’s problems cannot be solved by a supercop - Ramachandara Guha - The Telegraph
Annationalism - Shekhar Gupta - Indian Express
A tale of two movements - Amita Baviskar - The Times of India
The long shadow of the Ramlila stage - Ashutosh Varshney - Indian Express
1 comment:
True - the intellectuals are condemning the movement while the masses are supporting it in large numbers. The only inference i can draw from this is the big divide that exists between the intellectuals and the man on the street. The intellectuals can never generate the mass following and the masses never seem to follow reason. The present and future of this country will remain with the dynastic congress or right wingers NDA. God bless us.
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