RESEARCH

This Indian Express page one anchor is a classic case exposing how little journalists know what is happening on the activism front At centre of stirs against graft, a body with RSS links, ex-babus I n the story referred to above, correspondent Manoj CG jumps to a facile conclusion based on random quotes without delving deep into the facts, that too more than a year since the events alluded to in the story transpired. While it is a fact that two members of India against Corruption  —  Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi  —  were among the empanelled speakers in Vivekananda International Foundation-hosted seminar on 1 and 2 April 2011, it was no way a bid to either shape the respective movements led by Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev or bring the two civil society leaders together, much as the second is desired and has been a constant endeavour for the last two years on the part of many RSS  swayamsevak s. Following are the facts beyond what Manoj reports: Th...