On a fine Sunday morning, one of our Brothers rang up to me on my mobile and wished me good morning and said 'Anna Hazare speaking'. It was rather unusual to listen to him in the beginning but I found that he had a reason to say so. 'Money and power can make people corrupt and we religious are not far from it'.

Last few weeks our country is rocked by the "India against corruption movement". Edmund Burke once said, “Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."

The 73-year old Kisan Baburao Hazare, famously known as Anna Hazare, has become the most visible face of the anti-corruption movement that is garnering growing support. He sat on fast for 97 hours, in the burning sun, and he had decided to stay until death unless the government agreed to consider a powerful law that could rid Indian politics of the scourge of corruption. Read more »