Anna Hazare - The rise of the modern Gandhi

By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 06 August 2011, 01:43 IST
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After the retirement, he went back to his village Ralegan Siddhi. This village was a major drought prone and rain shadow zone where people suffered from poverty and deprivation. The sanitation and eco system was very poor. Anna came up with incredible community transformation ideas by enforcing the normative principles of human development. He worked a lot for uplifting the standards of the village that people forgot his original name "Kisan Baburao Hazare" and started calling him Anna Hazare. "Anna" means elder brother.