It has mass protests, civil society, and free media. But are the country’s political institutions up to the task?
NEW DELHI—Anna Hazare dresses like Mahatma Gandhi (white homespun cloth, round
spectacles) and uses Gandhian tactics (nonviolent protest, hunger strikes) to
fight the corruption he believes is damaging India. In 2011 and 2012, he
mobilized hundreds of thousands of Indians, many of them members of the new
middle class, to support his "fasts unto death." Following a 12-day hunger
strike in August 2011, he forced a panicked Indian government to agree to a series of demands for anti-corruption legislation.
Never mind India's Corruption, How about the good old U.S.of A's political institutions ...
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