Tarina Quraishi on the Chai Party Movement

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The American Tea Party evidently does not have a monopoly on “grassroots populism and radical rhetoric” according to Crimson writer Tarina Quraishi. A new anti-corruption movement in India closely parallels the Tea Party, from charismatic leaders to protesters in peculiar garb. As Quaraishi suggests, these two movements signal important changes in the two nations’ political climates.