A case for fractured solidarities

August 22, 2011 16:02

On August 17 at 5:30 am, I sat up to follow the latest developments on Hazare front (for sleepless nocturnal souls like me it helps that Ramzan are on). Logged into my facebook account and found that I have been labelled 'a cynic' for my status updates and posts on Hazare mobilisation. Got into a facebook 'discussion' argument with a friend abroad (All my homesick friends abroad have been smelling wafts of the 'Arab Spring' in all this).

Shuddhabrata Sengupta on the Anna Hazare movement. Read

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