In a year with more than its share of protests worldwide, perhaps the most striking act of dissent took place in India, where the country's ruling coalition took flak for a host of corruption cases implicating a number of leading politicians. Anna Hazare, a 74-year-old activist with a Gandhian air, embarked on a series of hunger strikes in protest of the graft that his supporters say pervades all strata of Indian society. The anticorruption bill, for which Hazare fasted, is still being debated in Indian parliament.