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Patralekha Chatterjee writes on development issues in India and emerging economies.
There is no getting away from Baba Ramdev.
Even in a Thai island, one is kept informed about the life and times of the fasting and furious yoga guru, a 46-year-old man with a flowing black beard in trademark saffron, who not only has a mass following — some 20 million-plus viewers in India tuning in to his early morning television show — but also wields control over a yoga and meditation network reportedly worth several billion rupees.
The local newspaper carries a six column report, with photograph, about how the Baba is making Indian politicians tremble. The report was written a few hours before the midnight crackdown on the Baba and his supporters at Delhi’s Ramlila Grounds — the “ground zero” of the yoga guru’s mass hunger strike against corruption.
With that act, the situation has only become more dramatic and charges of government high-handedness are flying thick and fast on cyberspace.
Sitting one space removed from the breathless saturation coverage of the Baba Ramdev saga in our media, two immediate questions come to mind. One, why are recent anti-corruption movements — first led by Mr Anna Hazare and now by Baba Ramdev — getting so much traction? Two, why is the government seemingly unable to gauge the level of support such movements will get?
Whatever, there was no need of giving a new name as 'Civil Society' to the Anti-Corruption Movement of private citizens.
Pressure Groups have always been in existence, throughout the history and across the Globe, where they fill the vacuum for the inertness of Autocratic, Insensitive and Lethargic Governments - elected or otherwise.
This gangrene of India, that is corruption at all levels and planes and the black-money stashed away abroad and in India needs to be cured, if we have to progress as a Society.
Finally, as for those elite, who argue against government's giving in to the so-called black-mail of the unrest have never raised their voice against such core issues of our Nation Importance, as discussed above, hence needs to check their priorities.
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