Sri Anna Hazare : Why?

Today on 23rd August 2011, Inidia

by Manjeet Chaturvedi on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 7:34am

Many sides are opening up.Democracy has differences but equality, fraternity and liberty are its guiding principles. Let us have a deeper analysis of the people and their behavior for Sri Anna Hazare's fast. Unfortunately what media serve is the only major source of information. Of course some observations are also reported by primary sources but all this is insufficient to explain this upsurge. I think that if the sociologists get involved on there own as objective researchers only then a reliable and valid conclusion can be drawn about this phenomenon. In my personal opinion, the state response to the classic problems shall be quicker. The political parties shall also realize that this is 21st century and more than a decade has gone by,the youth is restless and unemployed,especially the rural youth, and the older people have had seen their Indian dream shattered. In this era of electronic and colorful print media, the social media, the judicial activism and surely the structurally disadvantaged castes, gender and communities, the tribal people, the slum dwellers, the spontaneous settlers now receiving disappointments after disappointments, the Kafkaian bureaucracy, criminalization of politics, corruption in public life among many other things make the Indian social reality and not just corporate success stories or least effect of the melt down, rise of malls, colonization of suburb/rural areas which are in no way superior in social fabric. India lives in villages, in small-medium towns also. How far have we gone from Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali? Not much, I think when I look at the social scientific studies of poverty and underdevelopment in India.