Learning from Hazare
The Indian activist went on a hunger strike to demand the eradication of corruption in his country. Fortunately, we are a little more advanced.
September 7, 2011
ANNA Hazare did not die of corruption. A week ago, he ended his 12-day hunger strike. In front of tens of thousands of his supporters, the 74-year-old man drank coconut milk from a tin cup, ending his hunger strike a day after the Indian parliament agreed to his three demands related to managing corruption in the country. One of his demands was the immediate establishment of an anticorruption commission.
Hazare's action shows one way of fighting co
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