You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Arundhati Roy Criticizes Hunger Strike Demands of Anti-Corruption Activist Anna Hazare

HeadlineAug 22, 2011

While Anna Hazare’s hunger-strike campaign has brought tens of thousands to the streets, he has vocal critics within the government and among some Indian activists. Writing in the Hindu newspaper, the Indian author Arundhati Roy writes, “While his means may be Gandhian, Anna Hazare’s demands are certainly not.” Roy writes that Gandhi would have been dismayed by Hazare’s vision of an all-powerful, centralized ombudsman.

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top