Unprecedented protest by Delhi ministers is something India has never seen before, with jury out on how it will end.
![Arvind Kejriwal is camping out on the streets, demanding the police be made more accountable [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/201412152353298580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

KS Dakshina Murthy is an editorial consultant with The Hindu, based in Bangalore, India. He has written extensively on the US invasion of Iraq and West Asian politics.
Unprecedented protest by Delhi ministers is something India has never seen before, with jury out on how it will end.
![Arvind Kejriwal is camping out on the streets, demanding the police be made more accountable [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/201412152353298580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Uneducated woman in India’s southern Karnataka state grows into a legend after nursing hundreds of banyan trees.
![The row of banyan trees are on the Kudur-Hulikal road 80km from Bangalore [K S Dakshina Murthy]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013101383644536734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Irrespective of the politics, states in India are using the police to put down dissent with totalitarian force.

India’s movement towards implementing the Lokpal Bill has been fractured by political interests.
