Politics as showbiz

If last year was the “season of scams” in India, this is surely the summer of theatrical protests against those scams and the scourge of corruption of which they represent but the tip of a large and submerged iceberg. If the wizened war veteran, Anna Hazare, carried some credibility despite some bizarre pronouncements , the antics of yoga guru-turned-putative politician and social activist, Baba Ramdev, beggar the imagination.

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