“Sharjeel Imam to Rakesh Tikait to wrestlers: Why ‘manufacturers’ of movements fail”, Firstpost, June 2, 2023:
“Why do some mass movements make a Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Vladimir Lenin, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela or Aung San Suu Kyi, while some others produce passing, swiftly forgotten or discredited spectres?
Why do some street protests produce leaders who make a political impact like Jayprakash Narayan, Mamata Banerjee or Arvind Kejriwal, while others hog screen time, create flashes and disappear?
These questions are moot at a time when a fresh wave of street politics is rolling out, chiefly on three or four wrestlers’ allegation that BJP leader and Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has sexually harassed hundreds of athletes….”
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