There has been a bit of a commotion going on in India triggered by the issue of corruption and one man’s response to it. That man’s name is Anna Hazare and this is what Arundhati Roy has to say about him:
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/08/22/arundhati-roy-blasts-hazare/
(“executive” summary: she think is is an act serving a different cause)
I do not have any particular view on the matter, yet, but I figured alternative viewpoints might be of interest,
—ravi