Abstract
Why have instruments that were so powerful a few decades ago become so completely impotent today? How is it that the morchas, dharnas, hartals, and bandhs, even when they are able to wrest an advantage for one section at one moment end up undermining the foundation on which all of us stand? What is the difference between Gandhiji's satyagrahas and the “satyagrahas”" of today? How should we redirect our movement, indeed our politics itself, so that they may once again become instruments for improving our public life?
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