Book Release: Anna Hazare Upsurge

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Sahitya Upkram and All India Secular Forum

 

 

Book Release Function

 

 

Book Anna Hazare Upsurge (details below) edited by Asghar Ali Engineer and Ram Puniyani will be released by Justice (Retd) Hosbet Suresh. Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer, Dr. Vikas Narain Rai, Javed Anand and Ram Puniyani will be on the panel discussing the book.

 

Place:  Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh, Date: 29th May 2012, Tuesday, 5.30 PM.

 

All Are Cordially Invited

 

 

Irfan Engineer

 

All India Secular Forum

 

 

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Anna Hazare Upsurge : A Critical Appraisal

 

Editors : Asghar Ali Engineer l Ram Puniyani

 

ISBN 978-81-8235-108-0

 

Price : Rs. 160.00 (Paper Back)
Rs. 320.00 (Hard Bound)

 

Contents

Part – I : The Janlokpal Bill

    1.    Parliament is for People— Zoya Hasan
    2.    Anna Hazare Stir: What It Has Achieved and What it Has Not—Neena Vyas & Vidya Subrahmaniam
    3.    ‘Bahujan’ Lokpal Bill Makes New Demands — Yoginder Sikand
    4.    Jan Lokpal Bill: A Critique — A. Faizur Rahman

 

Part – II : Anna: Theme Essays

    5.    Anna Phenomenon: Paradox of Indian Reality  — Uday Mehta
    6.    What is the Real Goal of the Anna Movement  — Rohini Hensman
    7.    The Neoliberal Revolution   — Anand Teltumbde

 

Part – III : Anna and the Team: Background

    8.    The Making of an Authority: Anna Hazare in Ralegan Siddhi  — Mukul Sharma
    9.    The Unholy Cow    — Shekhar Gupta

 

Part – IV : Second Gandhi: Second Freedom Movement?

    10.    Is Anna Hazare the New Gandhi?     — Asghar Ali Engineer
    11.    Gandhian Façade     — Praful Bidwai
    12.    Anna Hazare: Tragedy to Farce  — J. Sri Raman

 

Part – V : Interviews

    13.    Jan Lokpal: An Alternative View    — K. N. Panikkar
    14.    Jan Lokpal Bill is Very Regressive: Arundhati Roy   — Sagarika Ghose
    15.    Communalism is Bigger Issue for Muslims: Akhtarul Wasey     — Sadiq Naqvi

 

Part – VI : Nature of Movement

    16.    Fuzzy Movement   — Prabhat Patnaik
    17.    Why I didn’t Go to Jantar Mantar   — Harsh Mander
    18.    Ambedkar’s Way & Anna Hazare’s Methods    — Sukhadeo Thorat
    19.    Born Again Patriot — An Anti-Corruption Movement and The Rise of Illiberalism     — Kanti Bajpai
    20.    The Ayatollah in Waiting     — Govind Talwalkar
    21.    Hardly a Revolution    — Soumitro Das
    22.    Anna Upsurge and The Social Movements   — Ram Puniyani
    23.    A Tale of Two Movements    — Amita Baviskar
    24.    Anna’s Social Fascism   — Kancha Ilaiah
    25.    Enough! Mr. Hazare    — John Dayal
    26.    Please Don’t Call It A Revolution    — Happymon Jacob

 

Part – VII : Role of Media

    27.    Media’s Misplaced Triumphalism    — Nilottpal Basu
    28.    Visibility as a Trap in the Anna Hazare Campaign   — Arvind Rajagopal
    29.    A Feral Media Orchestrates Anti-Corruption Campaign    — Sashi Kumar

 

Part – IX : Communal Undertones

    30.    India: Anna is the Icon of Banal Hindutva   — Jyotirmaya Sharma
    31.    The Communal Character of Anna Hazare’s Movement   — Bhanwar Megwanshi
    32.    Anna Hazare’s RSS    — Akash Bisht
    33.    Why the Sangh Loves Anna    — Hartosh Singh Bal

 

Annexures : Team Anna’s Version

‘We stand where we had Started on the Lokpal Bill’: Interview    — Arvind Kejriwal

 

What Matters is the Cause: Interview   — Medha Patkar

 

Anna Personality Cult should be Avoided   — Prashant Bhushan

 

Appendices : Summary of Draft Bills

Government Draft Bill

 

Jan LokPal Bill – Summary and Guide to India’s Civil Society Anti-Corruption Bill
Deserves Our Support  — Anna Hazare

 

Lokpal Bill: Aruna Roy and NCPRI’s Suggestions    — Aruna Roy

 

 

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[Ajay]

Does this book cover why there was a sudden flurry of press reports that were run the whole day on many channels maligning the members of Team Anna ? Who was behind the sudden TV exposure ? Why was there no investigative journalism story on this sudden Expose Team  Anna phenomenon ?   Surely Kiren Bedi had been saving flight money & putting it to other good use for years.  Why was it news only when Anna movement made a mockery & exposed the our corrupt political system ? Could they not find any thing more damaging  in her whole service career to offer as breaking news ? 

How come Ms. Bedi's  CAs offices were visited by IT Department and all this information reached the media where it made hay for a few days ? . Surely media knows its self well & how it works as a paid agent and what the rates are , Rs 50 lac per channel per day . 1 cr or more to repeat lies a 1000 times .  Same tactics were employed against Kejriwal , Prashant Bhushan , Kumar Vishwas and other mebers of team Anna.  Government  agencies, local police , phone taps , moles etc were employed to get to them with full cooperation of the paid media .  Prime Time TV today is no better than "Astha" .  

Anna's tour of Maharashtra & the great response he is getting , matching the Jantar Mantar response is being deliberately ignored by our business controlled servile to politicians media . The reputation of our prime time media and fixed TV debates has reached a new low . The shrill anchors have perfected the art of a "balanced debate" which is just a poor cover up and damage control for the system . All this cross shouting TV matches are just like IPL and movies ,  mediocre stuff dished out to an uncaring audience . 

Business controlled  main stream media & the corrupt servile judiciary need to be given due credit for spreading deliberate misinformation & thwarting the day of reckoning for  the corrupt system  by extending the time of this corrupt political , business , criminal nexus how ever  well served by their faithful servants the police & bureaucracy & will meet its end in 2014.