ABOUT THE BOOK
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This book is an
exhaustive study of the face of corruption in Indian polity and the role of a
lone crusader like Anna Hazare in cleaning it up. It traces the history of
various abortive attempts to frame a strong Anti-corruption bill that could deter
people occupying public offices from polluting the domain of democratic
governance in India. Against
this backdrop, it highlights the exasperation of the civil society with the
clumsy attempts of public personalities to frame, and at times to block the
birth, of such a law. It etches out the contours of Anna Hazare’s attempts to
forge this angst of the civil society into a powerful popular movement to force
law makers to understand the urgency of introducing such a bill in the
Parliament. The book also takes a panoramic view of corruption in high places
in India
and how it has been eating into the vitals of Indian economy and citizens
welfare. It highlights the inadequacy of the existing legal provisions to
prosecute public personalities for their crimes of corruption against the state
and the nation. In the murky waters of corruption, the book touches a human
chord when it dips into the past of Anna Hazare to build the persona of this
great son of India,
who practices what he preaches. No wonder, he calls himself a “fakir” a man who
has no family, no property and no bank balance. He lives in a small room
attached to the Yadavbaba temple in Ahmednagar’s Ralegan Siddhi village, 110km
from Pune and wears on khadi. But when 72-years old Kisan Baburao Hazare alias
Anna Hazare starts an agitation, every leader from Mumbai to Delhi sits up and takes notice. Even his
detractors and politicians, who hate his guts, grudgingly accept he is the only
person who has the power to mobilize common people across the country and shake
up a government. His small frail body has taken several blows from the
countless agitations, tours and hunger strikes he has undertaken since he came
in public life in 1975 but the motive of his life remains service to his fellow
humans. Today, Anna Hazare is the face of India’s fight against corruption
and better known as GANDHI OF MODERN INDIA.
ABOUT Author
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A seasoned journalist, Pradeep
Thakur, has rich and varied experience of working with prominent media
groups in India.
He is widely traveled and has more than two decade long experience of covering
wide range of subjects. Now whole-time writing and publishing keeps him
meaningfully engaged. His published works are :Tata Nano: The Peoples Car,
Carrying Dhirubhai’s Vision Forward: Mukesh Ambani; The Shining Star of America
& The World: Barack Obama; The King of Steel: Lakshmi N. Mittal; Angelina
Jolie: Is She the World’s Most Powerful Celebrity?; and Tiger in Woods:
The Story of World’s No. 1 Sports-brand Tiger Woods.
Dr. Pooja Rana is an
English Honours from the prestigious St. Bede’s College, Simla,
India and a postgraduate and
doctorate in mass communication from Guru Jambeshwar University of Science and
Technology from Hisar, Haryana,
India. She has
been teaching communication theory and print media for the past over six years
at the leading Department of Communication Studies of Jagannath International
Management School of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. Working as an
Associate Professor of Journalism, she has also been looking after the
international journal of communication studies, Mass Communicator, as an
Associate Editor. She has presented papers in several national and
international conferences in India
and abroad. She is also shortly coming out with an edited book on Media in
the Swirl, apart from yet another on Business Communication. She has also
been conferred with a national award in education by former Governor of Assam,
Sri Bhishma Pratap Singh.