The triumphal Bersih event of Nov 10 was always going to be a very hard act to follow. And even some die-hard activists had their doubts about the validity of the Hindraf rally, decrying it as too narrowly racial and sectarian.

But Nat Tan's magnificent www.jelas.info posting on Nov 24 entitled 'Why I will walk this Sunday' must have dispelled any reservations many may have felt.

And in fact the Sunday assembly proved a copybook display of self-disciplined non-violent civil disobedience that surely would have gladdened the heart of the Mahatma himself.