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Hazare knows something about rain. It was by managing water —rainwater specifically — in the small village in India's central western state of Maharashtra, where his labourer father lived, that he began his career as a social activist.
His real name is Kisan Baburao Hazare Anna is a local honorific for an older brother. One of seven children, Hazare's childhood was hard. In his early teens, he left Ralegan Siddhi, the remote village where the family was living, for Mumbai, miles away, where he sold flowers. In , Hazare joined the army and served for 15 years.
Either after seeing comrades killed in the war between India and Pakistan or after a serious depression which led him to contemplate suicide, Hazare decided that his purpose in life was to "serve his fellow men". He returned to Ralegan Siddhi and set about transforming the community. Villages in India today, let alone when Hazare began work in Ralegan Siddhi, suffer complex and profound social problems: alcoholism, domestic violence, illiteracy and malnutrition.
Most are without proper, indeed any, sanitation or reliable power supplies. For many, water remains a serious problem. First Hazare, working through the village priest, rallied all those worried about drinking in the community. Anyone selling liquor — local hooch— or beer was told to stop or leave. Severe punishments were imposed. It was frightening.
The regime, harsh though it might have been, worked. After alcohol, tobacco was banished too. Much of Mahrashtra is prone to drought. Only a fifth of Ralegan Siddhi's land was cultivable when he was a child, Vijay Hazare said, but now almost all land has valuable crops grown on it. Again, Hazare achieved simple but radical progress through filling the space left by the state.
He organised the construction of a system of small dams to hold rainwater. He got the villagers to plant trees to retain topsoil, his nephew said, working alongside them as they laboured. Productivity soared, allowing Hazare to tackle other problems such as illiteracy and discrimination based in India's millenniums-old hierarchy of social castes. Using the system in a way illiterate villagers never could, Hazare tapped the rich vein of subsidies available to communities but often stolen by officials.
The intermittent electricity supply was solved by the introduction of solar power. His campaigns against fraud and theft took him to the next level of activism. In , the same year that liberalisation unleashed India's economic growth, Hazare took on the officials and politicians of the state of Maharashtra. Hazare employed a new tactic — the hunger strike.
The "fast unto death" has antecedents that predate Mohandas Gandhi. But it was India's best-known independence leader who used it to significant effect in his battle first against India's imperial British rulers and against communal violence in newly free India. With his new moral authority, Hazare used the fast to circumvent the rotten institutions of power to force the departure of corrupt officials or politicians.
His efforts gained him powerful enemies and a new profile as one of the country's foremost moral voices.
The last two years have seen an extraordinary series of corruption scandals in India. More than the headline-grabbing scams, however, it is the endemic low-level corruption that is angering India's new urban middle classes more than ever before. They may have a car — but they have to pay officials bribes to have it registered and to get a licence.
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