People’s visceral antipathy

The everyday experience of the average citizen is that he faces the “pay up the bribe or wait forever/face-the-music” situations at every turn. In this milieu of an exasperated and beaten citizenry, it is surprising that an Anna Hazare has taken so long to emerge. In any event, the common man’s visceral antipathy towards the petty government officials conflated with the mega-scandals engineered by those in the highest echelons of government he hears about, is powering the Jan Lokpal Movement.

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