Anna effect bigger than foibles of Team Anna

October 24, 2011 17:07

With each passing day, the media keeps dragging out yet more 'dirt' on Anna Hazare's core leadership team. With absolutely no sense of scale, they have amplified and blown up what was, in Kiran Bedi's case, merely an attempt at cross-subsidising her voluntary services: simply put, Bedi accepted contributions from those who could afford to pay to have her come and talk and used the savings on those contributions (by travelling cattle class) to offer her services for free to those who couldn't defray her travel and other expenses.

Would it have helped if Bedi's NGO had been more transparent in its accounting practice vis--vis her contributors? Of course.

Read the opinion piece on Firstpost.com.

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