New Delhi: From Hitler to Obama - Time Magazine has featured people who 'for better or for worse, did the most to influence the events from the year' on the cover of its special annual issue. And this year the Person of the season is - the Protestor. As the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street Protests dominated world headlines, in India, it had been Anna's year.
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Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement that saw Indians rally in support continues to be named one of the top ten news stories on the planet this year by Time magazine, which listed the Arab Spring and killing of Osama bin Laden as the top attention-grabbing headlines.
In the section on People Who Mattered, Time Magazine says "It's tough to picture this diminutive, celibate octogenarian being the dynamo behind a whole popular movement. However in India, Anna Hazare cut a Gandhian pose that transfixed the world's largest democracy and set its sitting government's feet towards the fire."
It is going on to say, "Hazare's repeated fasts against corruption attracted thousands of supporters and paralyzed India's Parliament. While critics spy corruption within his own ranks and point to Hazare's ties towards the Hindu right wing, his protest channeled the widespread exasperation and anger of India's rising middle-class, frustrated using the age-old habits of graft that still dominate much of India's calcified bureaucracy."
The magazine says - Mr Hazare, a former military man who spent a lot of his life helping govern his tiny village in western India, summed up his 2011 in a recent interview as time passes: "I am still bemused regarding how this all came about. A pauper residing in a temple, who has nothing, no power, no wealth; for him the whole country united and spoke in one voice."
Anna also causes it to be to Peter Hapak's Photo Essay on the Cover Story. Among the 36 pictures is a close-up profile of the smiling and Gandhi-cap wearing Anna Hazare and one in which he is sitting cross-legged. Its caption reads "anti-corruption crusader in India."
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"When God wants to generate change, he requires a vehicle of change, and I became that vehicle," Mr Hazare is quoted as saying.
If you are unaware of the latest news make sure you go through Breaking News and Hot News.
Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement that saw Indians rally in support continues to be named one of the top ten news stories on the planet this year by Time magazine, which listed the Arab Spring and killing of Osama bin Laden as the top attention-grabbing headlines.
In the section on People Who Mattered, Time Magazine says "It's tough to picture this diminutive, celibate octogenarian being the dynamo behind a whole popular movement. However in India, Anna Hazare cut a Gandhian pose that transfixed the world's largest democracy and set its sitting government's feet towards the fire."
It is going on to say, "Hazare's repeated fasts against corruption attracted thousands of supporters and paralyzed India's Parliament. While critics spy corruption within his own ranks and point to Hazare's ties towards the Hindu right wing, his protest channeled the widespread exasperation and anger of India's rising middle-class, frustrated using the age-old habits of graft that still dominate much of India's calcified bureaucracy."
The magazine says - Mr Hazare, a former military man who spent a lot of his life helping govern his tiny village in western India, summed up his 2011 in a recent interview as time passes: "I am still bemused regarding how this all came about. A pauper residing in a temple, who has nothing, no power, no wealth; for him the whole country united and spoke in one voice."
Anna also causes it to be to Peter Hapak's Photo Essay on the Cover Story. Among the 36 pictures is a close-up profile of the smiling and Gandhi-cap wearing Anna Hazare and one in which he is sitting cross-legged. Its caption reads "anti-corruption crusader in India."
If you are unaware of the latest news make sure you go through Breaking News and Hot News.
"When God wants to generate change, he requires a vehicle of change, and I became that vehicle," Mr Hazare is quoted as saying.
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