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Raag Darbari is a satirical Hindi novel written by Sri Lal Sukla, published in 1968. [1] [2] He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award, the highest Indian literary award, in 1969 for this novel. [3] The novel illustrates the failing values present in post-Independence Indian society. It exposes the helplessness of intellectuals in the face of a ...
An Insignificant Man, a 2017 Hindi/English Indian socio-political documentary, was co-produced and directed by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla, and was also co-produced by Anand Gandhi. [158] [159] The documentary is about the rise of anti-corruption protests in India and the formation and rise to power of the AAP. [160]
Uprising 2011 is a compilation of selected news clippings, cartoons, interesting quotes and published articles of the anti-corruption movement that took place in India between 2010 – 2012, also referred to as India's Arab Spring or its second war of independence (against corruption). The book gives a thumb-nail view of the historical ...
Corruption in India is an issue which affects economy of central, state, and local government agencies. Corruption is blamed for stunting the economy of India. [1] A study conducted by Transparency International in 2005 recorded that more than 62% of Indians had at some point or another paid a bribe to a public official to get a job done.
Haridas Mundhra (Hindi: हरिदास मूंदड़ा; died January 6, 2018) was a Calcutta-based stock speculator who was found guilty and imprisoned in the first big financial scandal of newly independent India in the 1950s. The Mundhra scandal exposed the nexus between the bureaucracy, stock market speculators and small rogue ...
Parts of Kumar's poem ""Ho Gayi hai Peer Parvat Si"(हो गई है पीर पर्वत-सी)" were used in the popular 2017 India film Irada.The film showcases the sorry state of the people of Bathinda due to corruption and cancer caused by pesticides left from the Green Revolution and uranium contamination of ground water due to fly ash from thermal power plants.
Bhrashtachar (transl. Corruption) is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Ramesh Sippy, produced by G.P.Sippy, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Rekha, Anupam Kher, Raza Murad and Abhinav Chaturvedi, with Rajinikanth in a special appearance. [1] [2] and introduced Shilpa Shirodkar. [3]
When the Nav Nirman movement resulted in the forced resignation of the Gujarat government, student protests had already begun in Bihar. Unlike the Nav Nirman movement, political student outfits like Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) connected with the Jana Sangh, Samajwadi Yuvajan Sabha (SYS) connected with Samajwadi Party, and Lok Dal took an active role in the JP movement.