Unravelling the Skein of Mass Movements Saumitra Mohan India has literally been through a churning process in recent times, with so many incidents testing systemic capacities for survival. We have seen the rise of an increasingly assertive and demanding civil society in recent times, which reflects the ‘revolution of rising aspirations’. The same seems to be quite in sync with the trends world over, what with the ‘Occupy Wall Street Movement’ in the US, the Spring and Jasmine Revolution in the Middle East and similar uprisings elsewhere. The ‘demonstration effect’, unleashed by Alvin Toffler’s Third Wave as represented by the means of mass communication including print and electronic med...
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