A monsoon awakening

Rarely does the Indian middle class abandon its material comforts and studied sense of complacency to take to the streets — literally getting their feet wet — as they did last month. The innumerable talking heads we were subjected to 24/7 over those 12 days of drama and suspense were of one view: enough was enough, corruption had gotten out of hand and that was the sole collective motivation for the middle classes to have bought the t-shirt, topi and tricolour and abandoned the nearest air-conditioned mall in favour of the slushy, sweaty crush of a massive public rally.

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