India's Annagiri moment

The neo-Gandhian agitator has given GenNext the big idea they were waiting for, but the denouement of Anna Hazare’s movement may not be as triumphant as his team hopes. Every generation needs its own ‘big idea’. And GenNext has found it in the persona of Anna Hazare and the concept of the Jan Lokpal Bill. While it is true that an incredibly corruption-ridden UPA Government compounded matters through its ineptitude, insensitivity and arrogance, it is doubtful even if consummate handling of the challenge would have produced a very different result. The time had come for early 21st Century Indians to invent their own icon and idiom. If it wasn’t Anna Hazare it would have been someone else. If not the Lokpal Bill, it would have been some other issue. It was time for rebellion against established orthodoxy; time to rattle the status quo; time to ‘rock’ for change.

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