Articles by Mitu Sengupta
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Anna Hazare and the Gandhian Ideal
Mitu Sengupta – Dissent Magazine,
5 Sep 2011
As an admirer of Gandhi’s, I have found the ceaseless comparisons of Hazare with Gandhi – propagated by the media, Hazare’s supporters, and Hazare himself – troubling and inappropriate. I am not alone in my reservations about Hazare, who is not a popular figure within left and progressive circles in India. His movement has been portrayed, so far accurately, as a narrow, middle-class, upper-caste phenomenon that is dangerously tinged with authoritarianism and Hindu nationalism.
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