What are your views on Anna Hazare's Anti-corruption movement?

What Hazare had taken up is essentially a political issue and the stake holders are primarily the politicians! How can one expect that the opposition should not support the movement? Is it not essential that they also join people's movements of consequence to politics?

In fact it would be odd if the elected representatives do not participate in the movements in some way - for or against according to the merits of the movements - and remain mute spectators! In fact BJP expressed support like many other parties like the communists in the beginning itself. One of the primary issues taken first by BJP were the black money issue and corruption (the famous Sonia deposits in Swiss in particular about which the European Press made elaborate revelations).

The source of infos may be media - domestic or foreign - but the political party had a business to take up the same and they did! And RSS is like the Congress Seva Dal of those days (my elder brother was a coach in the 60's for the local taluk unit) which mainly take social issues for support and assistance. It is the RSS volunteers who first appear in the event of a calamity like flood or tsunami!

They have some principles in politics which people may or may not agree in the same way but they are no less patriotic than the congress cadres! To project then as vicious group by Congress is nothing but malicious and haughty behaviour! Hazare showed a weakness in backing out on his right comment on the development works in Gujarath and Bihar.

He buckles under pressure like an ordinary man sometime, as he is a simpleton, but he can not be taken for a ride by the Congress which youth like Bora do not understand. In those days JP and several social groups joined to attack Indira's attempts to subjugate Executive even Judiciary with such sinister suggestions like ''committed judiciary''! If the rulers remain within their boundary no one would intercede in their business except media and political parties in opposition who have anyway to criticise them for their good or bad works!

I do not go with Mr Kursheed and his call to Hazare is unwarranted and mischivous suggestion to serve his party's needs to curb mounting support for the movement! In fact Hazare should call the parties in opposition to join and help in forming a corrupt free Govt by congress or whoever in the helm! He can not be fettered with all the weird complaints expectedly raised by the rulers!

If the politics in India and politicians have been functioning properly there might have been no Hazare movement. Its just the fear that congress men can see how a single group of activists is overpowering them.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.