Why young MPs avoid insolent India

December 30, 2012 13:08

The protests that gripped Delhi over the past 10 days may have begun as a spontaneous expression of outrage against a particularly brutal gang-rape. But somewhere along the way, they escalated into something more far-reaching and yet ill-defined.

What makes citizens of India's showcase Capital take to the streets periodically'" remember the similar response to Anna Hazare's movement last year'"to vent their dissatisfaction against the 'system' is prone to divergent interpretations. Can the unrest be attributed to the arrogance of the rulers and the wide gulf that separates them from the ruled? Is it a problem linked to breakneck urbanisation that nurtures aspiration but leads to the simultaneous breakdown of established values? Alternatively, is 'civil society' a made-in-media tamasha?

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