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Fri,25 May 2012
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Activists of change
School children join the growing chorus of voices raised against corruption following Anna Hazare's seminal 'India against corruption' protest.

Reimagining India

The biggest accomplice to the crime of corruption, it is said, is our own indifference. It is time to end that indifference.

There is much controversy about Anna Hazare and his Jantar Mantar movement of April 2011, but he has showed emerging India that if the indifference is discarded it is possible to become the change we seek.

Speak out against corruption here or write to us at newindia@hindustantimes.com.


 
Rajbala, 16, harbours
In this age of democracy and opportunity, Surpur village calls her its princess. There is indeed something ineffably regal about this shy girl from the lowest of Hindu castes, once doomed to generations of illiteracy in Alwar, the oldest kingdom in the old royal lands of Rajputana. Kumkum Dasgupta reports.
A lawyer in Delhi defended the case in the Supreme Court for free. A lawyer in Lucknow braved repeated death threats. Two IIM graduates in Mysore — who initially did not know the difference between an FIR and a chargesheet — helped the family get legal help. Samar Halarnkar writes.


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