But Gandhi’s yardstick for non-violent protest was satyagraha – “the protest of truth.” By contrast, India’s current anti-corruption protests may be missing the point, for the central challenge in fighting corruption is to establish a freedom born of righteous conduct, not to authorize a new source of state coercion.
但甘地所树立的非暴力不合作是“捍卫真理”。相反，最近印度的反腐游行并不是这样，因为反腐斗争的核心挑战是建立由公正行为产生的自由，而不是授权成立一个新的国家高压机器。印度社会必须重新获得活力，重新扮演合适的角色。只有当印度如伟大诗人泰戈尔所说的那样成为“头颅高昂，思想无所畏惧”之地时，它才可能自信、诚实且慷慨地满足其公民应有的要求。