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Anna Hazare, Azim Premji in List of Top Global Thinkers
2. Anna Hazare
Making a surprise entry into this list of top 100 global thinkers is Anna Hazare who has been placed at the 37th position for his anti-corruption crusade in the country.
The magazine recognized Hazare's anti-graft campaign as having found resonance among Indians. "This 74-year-old Gandhi devotee has been railing against government corruption since his days as a rural organiser decades ago, but in 2011, when a series of high-profile scandals reached the highest levels of India's ruling Congress party, his message finally seemed to resonate," the Foreign Policy magazine said.
"Twice this year, Anna Hazare went on a hunger strike in New Delhi to demand tough legislation that would create a powerful new government anti-corruption watchdog. When the soft-spoken Hazare was arrested in August, tens of thousands of his supporters took to the streets throughout the country, bringing government to a standstill. Finally, the Parliament agreed to debate his ideas, and Hazare ended his fast," it said. It said the simplicity and single-mindedness of Hazare's crusade has awakened millions of middle-class professionals who are fed up with India's pervasive culture of graft.
