An epic needs a grand gesture

The Anna phenomenon has the government flummoxed, the world dubbing it India’s Arab Spring and Anna Hazare’s supporters heralding Gandhi’s re-birth. The ruling party, handicapped by Sonia Gandhi’s absence, erred in assuming that Mr Hazare could not revive his agitation after the government had dissipated his Jantar Mantar foray by engaging, pretending to negotiate and then discarding the Jan Lokpal Bill on the logic of a boss in the cartoon telling his disappointed employee that when he said his door was open, it did not extend to his mind.

Read Full Story>>