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This paper is a study of the Anna Hazare movement, which was a protest against corruption. The movement surprised critics by showing that the middle class was not indifferent to politics but merely seeking a different idiom to articulate its sense of politics and citizenship. This article explores the nuances of the movement and the criticisms made of it, and suggests that the standard modes of understanding electoral democracy and legislative representation do not quite capture the imagination of the movement either in terms of message or style.

The Anna Hazare movement attracted much attention in 2011 by demanding a strong and independent ombudsman institution empowered to investigate and prosecute allegations of corruption against government officials of all ranks, including ministers and judges. The movement drew most of its support from the urban middle classes of northern India. While it had many characteristics of a populist movement, its distinctive aspect is an antipolitical condemnation of the entire political class. Its indictment of corruption was a moral one, based on the conviction that the normal procedures of law are ineffective and easily manipulated by those with political power. As of spring 2012, the movement appears to have lost steam and has proved to have no effect on issues in the larger arena of electoral politics.

This comment piece explores certain aspects of the Anna Hazare phenomenon in India that hinge on issues of representation and imaging; the possible reasons for its high visibility; the images utilized and invoked in recent months; and the relationship between this history of “visuality,” and the popular appeal the Jan Lokpal Bill seems to have generated, at least among certain sections of Indian society.

This paper studies the use of social media in the Indian Lok Sabha and assembly elections. This study focuses on using social media in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections and its impact on voters. Besides, the paper also discusses the extensive use of social media in last assembly elections held in different Indian states during the COVID-19 pandemic. The onset of the pandemic has forced politicians and political parties to turn to social media for virtual campaigning. This paper covers the role of social media in the assembly elections in UP, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa, West Bengal, and Kerala. In recent years, Indian politicians have significantly relied on social media for campaigning during elections. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Election Commission's temporary restriction on rallies, the use of social media in assembly elections grew considerably. This paper also highlights social media usage in the recent 2022 assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.

For the past couple of decades, the Indian socio-economic and political scenario has been discussed and construed from different frames of references, both within the cokuntry and outside. New jingles and formulas of change have been brought in or reintegrated within the systems. Things have changed, ideologies have been challenged and many changes have taken place owing to various socio-political restructuring in the country. Contemporary changes in the socio-political systems have made Gandhi a matter of debate more than ever before, and various authors publish diverse views on him. Gandhi remains a strong imagery for mass movements and development in India. Various campaigns and initiatives use or overuse the ideologies and symbolism of Gandhi. This reflective paper identifies the ways in which Gandhian symbolisms and ideologies are applied and/ or debated in the contemporary world and analyses some of the major socio-economic and political developments from the Gandhian philosophy or ideology.

India now has the second largest number of Internet users in the world and rapid growth in Internet use and digital advertising is seen by many as the biggest market opportunity outside China since the Internet took off in the United States in the 1990s\" (Sen & Nielsen, 2016, p. 3). According to Ashutosh, then an editor with the IBN7 news channel, much of this movement was a creation of the media that wanted to exploit the middle-class' anti-politician sentiment. A. The middle class and the media In a paper analyzing the news media's push towards a singular narrative and the misplaced need for regulation, Bharat Bhushan, a senior journalist, draws a link between the 1991 economic reforms and journalism. [...]the authors' research fails to mention how journalists themselves have not used the RTI as often and as effectively as they should have.