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Ralegaon Siddhi has changed for ever, thanks to this determined soldier

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Why God Saved Anna Hazare

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India's fearless soldier. Photo: Padma Sastry

Hazares transformationbegan in 1964 at a Delhirailway station bookstall

after he bought a book onSwami Vivekananda's life.

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Khemkaran, September 1965. An Indian military convoyrumbles towards the fighting zone. Suddenly, two PakistaniSabre jets drop out of the sky and scream in to attack. Asbombs begin exploding around him, Kishan BaburaoHazare, driving a truck full of soldiers, speeds up. But whena splinter grazes his forehead, he ducks below thedashboard and jams on the brakes with his hands. Thewindscreen shatters and bullets riddle the man sitting next toHazare. The 25-year-old driver tumbles out of his truck andprays fervently as the two Sabres strafe the convoy again.When they finally disappear, dozens ofjawans lie dead. Ofthe few survivors, only Hazare escapes serious injury. Yousaved me, God, Hazare says, over and over again. Butwhy?

At the village of Ralegaon Siddhi, I discovered why Godsaved Baburao Hazare. In the 1970s, Ralegaon Siddhi wasntvery different from hundreds of other villages in this arid partof Maharashtras Ahmadnagar district. With water availableonly during the monsoons, its farmers could barely grow onecrop a year, and 70 percent of the villages 315 families livedin abject poverty. Indeed, Ralegaon Siddhis most distinctivefeature was its 40 illicit distilleries that made the village a

popular haunt for drunks and gamblers. Thefts and brawls were commonplace.

Since he returned to Ralegaon Siddhi in 1975, Hazare has spearheaded a movement that haschanged all this for ever. Today, Ralegaon Siddhi is brisk and prosperous. Signs of rural modernityabound. Its fields are heavy with grain; theres a bank, a boarding school, biogas plants; some of itsfarmers drive around on mopeds. Even more remarkable is the social transformation that Hazare haswrought. No one drinks in Ralegaon Siddhi. Only a handful smoke. There hasnt been a crime here inyears. Even the practice of untouchability has weakened. Thanks to Hazare, said the formerCollector of Ahmadnagar, Rajiv Agarwal, scores of other villages here and in neighbouring districtslook to Ralegaon for inspiration.

Its hard to believe that Hazare could be responsible for all this. Hes a short, thin, mild-looking fellow;the kind of person you wouldnt look at twice. Nor is his background the stuff from which leaders aresupposed to be made. The son of a poor farmer, Hazare never got beyond the seventh class in school.As a young man his fiery temper constantly got him into trouble: once he had the Bombay police afterhim when he beat up a cop who had been harassing hawkers.

He was known as a troublemaker in the army too. Soon after he enlisted, he discovered that a seniorofficer was embezzling mess funds. He publicly questioned the officerand was posted to far-offNEFA as a punishment.

The story of Hazares transformation began in 1964 at a Delhi railway station bookstall after he boughta book on Swami Vivekananda.

Enthralled by the great sages life and by his dictum that the noblest thing a man can do is work forthe good of others, Hazare avidly began reading religious texts and biographies of social reformers.And after his escape from the Sabre jets at Khemkaran, Hazare became a vegetarian, gave upcigarettes and liquor, and vowed to remain a bachelor devoting himself to public service.

A worthy cause, he realized, lay right in front of him: The upliftment of his own village, Ralegaon

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Siddhi. During his annual visits home, Hazare had been appalled by its steady deteriorationeven thevillage temple had become badly run down. If I could re-build the temple, Hazare said to himself,more people might think of God and lead better lives. But he didnt have the money; nor could heleave the army just yetto qualify for a pension he had to serve for several years more.

Finally, in August 1975, Hazare returned to Ralegaon after retiring from the army. His service benefitsamounted to Rs20,000 and he planned to spend the money rebuilding the village temple. He hiredcarpenters and masons, and helped them lay bricks and lug wood.

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Few people paid him any attention at first. But as the templeneared completion, the villagers began changing. Someoffered to donate wood; many volunteered their labour. Thistaught me one thing, Hazare says. If people are convincedthat you are not selfish, theyre on your side.

Among those who joined Hazare were a few young men.They called him Annabig brotherand listened withfascination to his dream of transforming their village.Gradually, more youths joined the group, and Hazaresuggested they form a Tarun Mandal [youth club].

One night, a few Tarun Mandal members rushed to thetemple with the news that some drunks from a neighbouringvillage had beaten up Gulab Bhalekar, a 40-year-oldRalegaon farmer, because he had not saluted them. Annaseized the opportunity to call a village meeting at which helashed out against drinking, illicit distilling and gambling. Imwarning all distillers here, he said. Shut shop!

Some distillers, fearing Anna and his boys, readily complied.Others had their liquor dens smashed up. But Hazare was

not content with simply putting an end to the illegal distilling. You can drink elsewhere, he toldvillagers. But if anyone here is found drunk, hed better watch out.

He soon proved he meant business. A few days later when three men returned to Ralegaon drunk aftera binge in a nearby village, Hazare had them tied to the temple pillars and personally flogged themwith his army belt.

Anna Hazare is unfazed by criticism of such behaviour. Rural India is a harsh society, he says, ifyou want change, its sometimes necessary to be tough. Indeed, no one I met at Ralegaon holdsHazares harshness against him. I was a miserable drunk nine years ago, said 44-year-old HaribhauMapari, a Ralegaon farmer. But after being thrashed, Ive not touched a drop of liquor. Anna saved me.

Though drink had blighted the lives of Ralegaon Siddhis residents, Hazare soon realized that a farmore important reason for the villagers misery was lack of work. In fact, because many of the villagershad worked for the bootleggers, shutting down the distilleries had, ironically, made several familieseven poorer. As he wondered what could be done, Hazare chanced upon a newspaper article about astate government scheme that provided manual labour jobs on public works projects. He and the TarunMandal boys quickly rounded up about 200 villagers who needed work and got jobs for all of them.

This taught Hazare another important lesson: The government runs a number of rural developmentschemes, but because they were poorly publicized, illiterate villagers rarely get to hear about them.

By finding out what schemes existed and studying them carefully, Hazare could help villagers takeadvantage of them.

Accordingly, Hazare decided to find out as much as he could about these development projects. Hehaunted government offices, talked to every bureaucrat he could, read several newspapers and built upfiles on government development schemes. He was extraordinarily persistent, recalled M.D.Sukhatme, executive engineer in Ahmadnagars irrigation department. I remember him at onemeetin sittin on the floor listenin intentl to a technical discussion on water mana ement.



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Since Ralegaon suffered from acute water scarcity, Hazare was especially interested in irrigationtechniques. Reading about a successful water conservation project near Purandhar, about 100kilometres away, Anna studied the system and got engineers to draw up plans for a similar facility atRalegaon. And by persuading villagers to do much of the work themselves, he got the facilities built atthe lowest possible cost. Building the temple had taught villagers the benefits of working together,says Hazare. Since then shramdan [self-help] has been our way of life.

Today, much of Ralegaons farmland is irrigated. Agricultural incomes have increased remarkably, andvery few villagers live below the poverty line. Not only have living standards risen, dozens of villagersare now free of debt. I was able to pay back Rs40,000 in debts that Id accumulated over the years,farmer Nana Auti told me proudly, Since then Ive also built a new house.

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Ralegaons self-help efforts are not always looked uponkindly. Once, after the villagers decided they wanted a high-school and constructed a 10-room building themselves, thegovernment refused to provide money for running it. Annasoon discovered the reason: a powerful local politician,annoyed because hed received no votes in Ralegaon in arecent election, was taking revenge.

Hazare, however, was undeterred. He hired ten teachers,offering them free food and housing in lieu of wages, and gotthe school going. Then he systematically began to lobbyofficials both at district headquarters in Ahmadnagar and at

the state secretariat in Bombay, 350 kilometres away.

To keep expenses down during his Bombay trips, Hazareslept on newspapers spread out on bus station floors, andbathed in the sea. But for one year, despite 20 visits toBombay and innumerable more to Ahmadnagar, nothinghappened. Finally, Hazare says, I decided Id had enough.He descended on Ahmadnagars Zilla Parishad office onemorning with 250 villagers and announced that they were allgoing on a hunger strike. Within hours, officials in Bombay

sent an assurance that the money would be made available.

Today the school is run on military lines. Thats where I learnt some discipline, says Hazare.Students have to jog and exercise daily, and take extra courses in English which, insists Hazare whoknows very little of the language himself, is essential to understand modern science.

Hazare has tried to modernize age-old social customs too. The Ralegaon Tarun Mandal organizesgroup marriages thrice a year. Nobody has to spend more than Rs1000; poor families dont have topay anything at all. Ralegaon group weddings have become so popular that even girls fromneighbouring villages are sometimes married off there.

Untouchability, too, is beginning to lose its force in Ralegaon. Today, the villages Harijans share thecommunity water tanks with caste Hindus and eat with them at the group marriages. At the villagesannual cattle festival, its been a convention to give a Harijans bullocks pride of place.

All such progress, Hazare believes, must be based on a deep religious faith. Today, as in the verybeginning, the village temple is the heart of Hazares movement. Anna himself lives there, in a smallroom cluttered with files and documents. All day long, the temple is crowded with people attendingprayer sessions, religious discourses, and meetings.

The changes in Ralegaon have stimulated people in neighbouring areas to do something about theirvillages, too. Raghunath Thange, 29, gave up his headmasters job at a high school near Ahmadnagar

and is now engaged in closing down distilleries in villages. Were following in Annas footsteps, hesays. Thanks to him we know what to do.

Anna wants a lot more for Ralegaon including industries that will keep Ralegaons educated youthsfrom leaving the village. As always, he rarely has a spare moment, especially with people from othervillages coming to him constantly to discuss their problems or to invite him to address publicfunctions. While I was with him two Muslims youths from neighbouring Sirur town wanted him to talkat a meeting celebrating the Prophets birthday. Anna accepted readily. When they left he told me, I



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dont know much about the Prophet, but Ill give them my messagethat to change our nation wehave to change our villages, and to do that we have to change ourselves.

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Anna Hazare was a relatively unknown figure when this article was first published in 1986. Since then,Hazare has won innumerable awards and honours including the Padma Bhushan. Today, he isnationally known for his many crusades, especially against corruption. It was largely due to him thatMaharashtras Right to Information Act was passed and then amended in 2006. Meanwhile, RalegaonSiddhi has become a model for many other villages in the country.

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