When Mahatma Gandhi fasted, the nation held its breath, wrote Erik Erikson in Gandhi's Truth of the father of India's civil disobedience campaign in the leadup to independence in 1947. For the past two weeks, as Anna Hazare held his fast at Ramlila Grounds in New Delhi, the public, government and media indulged in much-needed soul-searching - and India seems to have emerged a stronger nation.
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