New Protest movements in India: an Appraisal of Democracy, Civil Society and Media in India: With special reference to Anti-Corruption Agitation, 2011
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
The world in recent years has witnessed protest movements of various kinds and centering around various issues. Some instances that come to mind will be those of Occupy Movement, the famous Arab Spring and the Anti-Corruption agitation in India. Occupy movement represents planned action against corporate power, political corruption, and economic inequality. Arab Spring or variously called as revolution, revolt, intifada and so on, which began in Tunisia in December 2010 and then spread to other Arab nations, is a genuine expression of a long-standing desire for freedom and economic justice denied by the autocratic regimes in the region. The Anti-corruption agitation in India on the other hand, emerged amidst the revelation of many corruption scams in India in 2010. Thereby the movement leaders spearheaded by Kisan Baburao Hazare who proposed for a Jan Lokpal Bill, proposes to create institutions called Jan Lokpal and Jan Lokayukta at the levels of the central and state governments respectively, which can facilitate immediate punishment of government officials accused of financial fraud. These three movements though differ from each other as in the latter case the political context was different but largely they showed great resonance and reflect the mood of the present time. These movements emerged as a result of the callousness on the part of their respective authorities, a kind of the anti-politics or anti-politicians’ tendency, emergence of city space as an important site of protest, street politics with large participation of otherwise indifferent middle class, excessive use of media (specially social media) and a certain drift from representative to an inclination to embrace principles of participatory democracy. But over and above they didn’t want to do away with the state but want it to respond to them and cater to their grievances. The present study tries to analyse the Anti-Corruption Agitation as an attempt to understand protest movements of the present time by looking at concepts such as civil society, democracy and media, which played an important role in this movement as well.
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Kangkana Sharma
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