Following is an excerpt from Ramachandra Guha's article where he was drawing comparisons between Jaya Prakash Narayan and Anna Hazare. Following is the excerpt from his log which makes a lot of sense: "The scholar and public servant Gopalkrishna Gandhi recently observed that the arteries of constitutional democracy have become clogged, contaminated by years of abuse and disuse. One needs, he said, a bypass surgery to restore the heart to its proper functioning. The image is striking, and apposite. The current movement against corruption may come to constitute such a bypass, so long as it does not claim to be the heart itself." HISTORY’S LESSONS - Hindustan Times, 24th August 2011