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Why is the non-profit named "5th Pillar"?



The name 5th Pillar represents the organization’s central idea; that people have the power to change the fundamental conditions that corruption depends on for its existence, and that popular mobilization against corruption will strengthen the four traditional pillars of India’s democracy.

Those are traditionally: Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and the Media

Via https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/openindia/fifth-pillar-of-i...


https://www.pillarsofindia.com/four-pillars-of-indian-democr..., but that itself is based on the four pillar idea that occurs in Hinduism, I believe, for which I cannot find a wikipedia article, curiously enough.




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