[Debate] Fwd: We should be there : The Left and the Anna moment

[Jai Sen]

Sunday, 21 August 2011



A reflection on the Anna Hazare stir in India from the old new left :  
Nivedita Menon, feminist, author, on

We should be there : The Left and the Anna moment



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> Date: August 20 2011 2:47:52 pm GMT+05:30
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> We should be there: The Left and the Anna moment
> Nivedita Menon | August 20, 2011 at 2:47 PM | Tags: Anna Hazare,  
> carnival, India Against Corruption, Left, RTI, Shehla Masud |  
> Categories: Bad ideas, Centre watch, Debates | URL: http://wp.me/pcwAA-2gS
> My head has been in a whirl the past few days with a single question  
> - how do we on 'the Left' manage so unerringly to be exactly where  
> 'the people' are not, time after time? At this moment I don't mean  
> the organized Left, for the Left parties  have been cautious about  
> criticizing  the [...]
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