If America's Mitt Romney has taken up any cause and is counting on it to win the election, he has to make sure it won't be gone in thin air come November.
Like Don Quixote, Anna and his team, in their wild dreams pick on anything they can which don't retaliate, to blame for the epidemic of corruption in India while the real causes and reasons lie elsewhere and beyond the combined intelligence of the whole team.
In fashioning legislation and a structure aimed at eliminating widespread corruption, India should look to the experience of Hong Kong and its three-pronged approach to fighting corruption: deterrence, prevention (both through law enforcement), and community education.
This time may yet be remembered as India's own spring. If it fails to happen, then it really will take a Tahrir Square to shake up the establishment and deliver meaningful change to the Indian people.
NEW DELHI -- A prominent Indian activist called off his hunger strike Wednesday but said that he would travel the country and campaign against the gov...
NEW DELHI — The powerful lower house of India's Parliament passed a contentious anti-corruption bill Tuesday after hours of fierce debate even a...
NEW DELHI — The charismatic leader of a popular Indian anti-corruption movement ended a 20-day vow of silence Friday with a promise to reform th...
Anna Hazare has tapped into a spiritual appeal -- renunciation, fasting, asceticism. This has made it difficult for the government to oppose him without appearing churlish.
It is impossible to ignore the deep psychological need of most Indians, indeed most Asians, to follow a charismatic leader -- institutional or not -- imbued with real or imaginary spiritual qualities.
The Chinese Navy confronted an Indian naval ship in the South China Sea in July, demanding to know why the Indian vessel was in Chinese territory desp...
In the U.S., corruption is king, the king's name is Grover Norquist and bribes go by the euphemism "campaign contributions" from the business lobby.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and in a world where the gap between the powerful and powerless grows wider each day, corruption in political and economic institutions spreads much faster than shame.
NEW DELHI — An Indian reform activist agreed Saturday to end an 11-day hunger strike after Parliament expressed nonbinding support for parts of ...
Luckily for those around the world concerned about terror, drugs, human trafficking and other multinational criminal organization, the Indian people are working hard to make India, and by extension the world, a more secure place.
It's the start of a movement for a change in the way politics is played in India. This is the glimpse of modern and exciting India which has awakened as an India 2.0.
India's government is reeling from a populist anti-corruption campaign led by Kisan Baburao Hazare, popularly known as Anna Hazare, which has united tens of thousands across the country in the fight against graft.
NEW DELHI — Criticism mounted Monday against an Indian activist's hunger strike, with public figures saying it threatens democracy and verges on...
Due to a combination of demographics, technology and tradition, the biggest social media in India is not one of those we think of usually.
The massive protest movement that has erupted throughout India in sympathy with a fast against political corruption conducted by an elderly social activist has all the earmarks of a new democratic uprising in the subcontinent.
Imagine this scenario. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh puts his government on the line, as he did in July 2008 over the Indo-US nuclear deal. This time...
NEW DELHI — A renowned Indian anti-corruption crusader struck a deal with police early Thursday to hold a 15-day public hunger strike against gr...
NEW DELHI — Police ordered the release of an activist arrested for planning a public hunger strike, but the elderly anti-corruption advocate ref...
2nd April, 2011 Dear Mahatma Today I witnessed the Indian team lift the cricket world cup for the first time in my life. I have never felt so proud. ...
