Lets catch a glimpse of the person who we call Anna Hazare, the social activist, the man fighting against corruption, the initiator of the second Indian Struggle for Freedom.
Anna Hazare was born in Bhingar, Maharashtra on June 15th, 1937. Anna was recruited for indian army when he was 25 years old in Mumbai. In the Indo- Pakistani all the comrades except Anna Hazare were killed. Even Anna narrowly missed death when a bullet just went over his head. After that incident he began to think about meaning of life and death. He started reading works of Swami Vivekananda,and Gandhi. some years later he survived another road accident while driving in a truck. Then he took an oath to dedicate his life to the service of humanity at the age of 38. In 1975, as soon as he became eligible for pension, he retired voluntarily. He returned to his village, Ralegaon Siddhi, and transformed the whole village.
Before Anna went to the village, the people of the village were ignorant, had irregular water supply and the men of the village were alcoholics. Anna transformed the village by building water sheds, creating a youth assocication, Tarun Mandal and made the people take oaths to transform the village in the temple. As the oath was taken in the temple, it had a sort of religious feeling attached to it and the people who took the oath were unmistakably bound by it. Thus the liquor shop owners voluntarily closed their shops as Anna showed them another way of living. The village underwent tremendous economic and social development. For this great achievement, Anna received Padma Bhushan award from our government.
Untill now we have seen movies on corruption and we have, at some point given money as corruption to get our work done. In 2011 all good things seem to be happening. The arrest of Kanimozhi, sacking of people caught in 2G scam, CBI investigation of YS Jagan, accusations on YSR's property at last and now, the "second struggle for freedom" began.
Untlil now, people talked of corruption like it's an inevitable thing and kept saying that we cannot do without it. Even if someone raised their voices they were soon shut down as they faced little support and greater humiliation. Now that Anna raised his voice against it, started a fast unto death for it, somehow it stirred the whole nation into protests and action. Untill now we have seen useless bunds and dharnas and fasts, now we are seeing a real fast, a real struggle for freedom, witnessed in India more than 70 years ago. People now call him a Gandhi, and some say our next gen wil be reading about this as a part of Indian history. Now people no longer call these protests as nuisense or political stunt. every one in this country lazy or active, in some way or the other is supporting Anna. This is getting close the craze of the world cup. the movement is getting a rage in SMS's and cell phones and TVs. It's become a fashion to wear shirts with Anna name written on it.
That's not all. We have seen internet popping with Anna Hazare. in Facebook, thousands of people have changed their profile picture to Anna Hazares picture. Twitter is tweeting madly about it. Everywhere support Anna campaign runs.For the first time after Independence, something useful is happening. Even common folks, looking at 74 year old Anna fasting in the open to save the country, joined in the protest, giving this the real look of a Gandhian movement. People, after finding a leader to protest against corruption, are ready to leave their jobs and work for the sake of Anna. The local TV chans likeTV9 etc need not give useless news about two headed snakes anymore. Every news channels is happily giving update information about Anna.
I think Anna is what precisely called the one man army. He's moving the nation like no one else moved it since independence. He's the most influential person now. Everyone, irrespective of religion, political views, status, region, any difference you can find is supporting him. So I think I can say, in some ways he is greater than Gandhi. So since I cant do anything to support sitting here preparing for college, I really felt bad about it. He's not touching even a small grain at 74, and with a young body, I'm having all the pleasures of food. So in some way or the other, I felt I had to support him. so here's is my article supporting him. GO ANNA!
Anna Hazare was born in Bhingar, Maharashtra on June 15th, 1937. Anna was recruited for indian army when he was 25 years old in Mumbai. In the Indo- Pakistani all the comrades except Anna Hazare were killed. Even Anna narrowly missed death when a bullet just went over his head. After that incident he began to think about meaning of life and death. He started reading works of Swami Vivekananda,and Gandhi. some years later he survived another road accident while driving in a truck. Then he took an oath to dedicate his life to the service of humanity at the age of 38. In 1975, as soon as he became eligible for pension, he retired voluntarily. He returned to his village, Ralegaon Siddhi, and transformed the whole village.
Before Anna went to the village, the people of the village were ignorant, had irregular water supply and the men of the village were alcoholics. Anna transformed the village by building water sheds, creating a youth assocication, Tarun Mandal and made the people take oaths to transform the village in the temple. As the oath was taken in the temple, it had a sort of religious feeling attached to it and the people who took the oath were unmistakably bound by it. Thus the liquor shop owners voluntarily closed their shops as Anna showed them another way of living. The village underwent tremendous economic and social development. For this great achievement, Anna received Padma Bhushan award from our government.
Untill now we have seen movies on corruption and we have, at some point given money as corruption to get our work done. In 2011 all good things seem to be happening. The arrest of Kanimozhi, sacking of people caught in 2G scam, CBI investigation of YS Jagan, accusations on YSR's property at last and now, the "second struggle for freedom" began.
Untlil now, people talked of corruption like it's an inevitable thing and kept saying that we cannot do without it. Even if someone raised their voices they were soon shut down as they faced little support and greater humiliation. Now that Anna raised his voice against it, started a fast unto death for it, somehow it stirred the whole nation into protests and action. Untill now we have seen useless bunds and dharnas and fasts, now we are seeing a real fast, a real struggle for freedom, witnessed in India more than 70 years ago. People now call him a Gandhi, and some say our next gen wil be reading about this as a part of Indian history. Now people no longer call these protests as nuisense or political stunt. every one in this country lazy or active, in some way or the other is supporting Anna. This is getting close the craze of the world cup. the movement is getting a rage in SMS's and cell phones and TVs. It's become a fashion to wear shirts with Anna name written on it.
That's not all. We have seen internet popping with Anna Hazare. in Facebook, thousands of people have changed their profile picture to Anna Hazares picture. Twitter is tweeting madly about it. Everywhere support Anna campaign runs.For the first time after Independence, something useful is happening. Even common folks, looking at 74 year old Anna fasting in the open to save the country, joined in the protest, giving this the real look of a Gandhian movement. People, after finding a leader to protest against corruption, are ready to leave their jobs and work for the sake of Anna. The local TV chans likeTV9 etc need not give useless news about two headed snakes anymore. Every news channels is happily giving update information about Anna.
I think Anna is what precisely called the one man army. He's moving the nation like no one else moved it since independence. He's the most influential person now. Everyone, irrespective of religion, political views, status, region, any difference you can find is supporting him. So I think I can say, in some ways he is greater than Gandhi. So since I cant do anything to support sitting here preparing for college, I really felt bad about it. He's not touching even a small grain at 74, and with a young body, I'm having all the pleasures of food. So in some way or the other, I felt I had to support him. so here's is my article supporting him. GO ANNA!
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