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Anna Hazare arrest: Global bank VP on fasting leave from Hong Kong

MUMBAI: Checkered shorts and a Gandhi topi is a fashion felony. But 29-year-old Shailesh Saraf doesnt care; he has never blindly followed a popular trend. Currently on FL or fasting leave, Saraf, a vice president of a global bank, is down from Hong Kong to campaign for the Jan Lokpal bill. Saraf was among the 72 protesters who were fasting for the second consecutive day at Azad Maidan; two new recruits joined the fast on Wednesday. At the maidan, Saraf intermittently checks his Blackberry, not for investment updates or market movements but for news of Anna Hazares release. For the most part, he sits on the stage, listening to people unspooling long speeches about the corruption theyd faced. When I was in India, I used to evade taxes. I dont even try that in Hong Kong. Here, I used to jump signals, I dont do that there, he confesses. What Im getting at is that I am the same person-I still want to reach my office quickly, still make more money. But there is a system I must follow. India needs to have a better system in place and the Jan Lokpal draft is the best piece of legislation drafted in India.

                                                                                                               
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