Kushal Malde, a 23-year old who works at an Indian bank in the Bandra Kurla Complex.
As Indian lawmakers began a much-anticipated debate in Parliament about a bill to create a new anti-corruption agency known as the lokpal, activist Anna Hazare began a fast in Mumbai on Tuesday. He started his day by paying his respects at a statue of Gandhi in the coastal neighborhood of Juhu before arriving at a big, open ground at the Bandra Kurla Complex in the center of the city that is often used for fairs, rallies and concerts.
The size of the crowd at the rally ground was modest relative to the crowds he attracted during his last fast in August at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi.
In Mumbai today, the ground was divided in two, with one section reserved for women and the other for men. The section for men was about half full when I arrived in the early afternoon and proceeded to fill up over the several hours I spent there, with a few thousand protestors. The women?s section, however, had few people and many of them were men and boys.
We?ve posted video interviews with two of the several protestors I spoke to about why they had come to the rally in the middle of a workday: banker Kushal Malde, above, and web designer Ajay Verma, below:
Ajay Verma, a 46-year old freelance web designer from the suburb of Vasai.
Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=972997fef544ba1bf0e524f18180edd3
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