A tale of two movements
Posted on September 06, 2011
The campaign for the Jan Lokpal Bill has been quoted by many as a second freedom struggle and has often been compared with the Navanirman movement led by Jayaprakash Narayan in the 1970s. Amita Baviskar, a noted sociologist draws a comparison with the RTI campaign in this thought provoking article and looks at the differences in approach between the two movements.
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