Has urban India arrived?

Regardless of whether one agrees with the substance of Anna Hazare’s Lokpal bill, we are undoubtedly witnessing a remarkable social movement. The crowds gathering in different parts of the country meet the classic yardsticks of a movement: numbers, symbols, funds, an organisational vanguard, a media strategy, and most of all, a determined defiance of established authority. More often than not, movements derive their power from a heroic defiance of the establishment. In part because of that, they can also transform the mainstream of electoral politics.

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