Public Opinion can make the horse come to the water, it cannot make it drink.
The most valuable trait in politics is not rhetorical power. It is silence. Those who speak the least shall be prime minister the longest.
So long as the Anna movement used the power of music and maun vrat, they had a chance. The minute they took to the megaphone they blew it.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta wonders if we will see the year of reason in 2012 after public mobilization shaped 2011.
