Anna Hazare :Early life Kisan Baburao Hazare was born on 15 June 1937 [11] (some sources say 15 January 1940[12]) inBhingar, near Ahmednagar. He was the eldest son of Baburao Hazare and Laxmi Bai. He has two sisters and four brothers. He later adopted the name Anna, which in Marathi means elder person or father. His father worked as an unskilled labourer in Ayurveda Ashram Pharmacy[citation needed] and struggled to support the family financially. In time, the family moved to their ancestral village of Ralegan Siddhi, where they owned a small amount of agricultural land. A relative took on the burden of providing Kisan with an education, taking him to Mumbai because the village had no primary school. The relative became unable financially to continue the support and Kisans schooling ended in the Standard Seventh grade; his siblings never attended school.[13] He started selling flowers at the Dadar railway station in Mumbai and eventually managed to own two flower shops in the city.[14] He also became involved in vigilantism, joining groups who acted to prevent landlords thugs from intimidating the poor out of their shelter.[15] Military service Hazare was drafted in the Indian Army in April 1960, where he initially worked as an army truck driver and was later attested as a soldier.[16] He undertook army training at Aurangabad.[13][17] During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Hazare was posted at the border in the Khem Karan sector. He was the sole survivor of an enemy attack—variously claimed to have been a bomb, an aerial assault and an exchange of fire at the border—while he was driving a truck.[13][14][18] The experiences of wartime, coupled with the poverty from which he had come, affected him. He considered suicide at one point but turned instead to pondering the meaning of life and death.[13] He said of the truck attack, [It] sent me thinking. I felt that God wanted me to stay alive for some reason. I was reborn in the battlefield of Khem Karan. And I decided to dedicate my new life to serving people.[14] At a book stand in New Delhi railway station, He came across Swami Vivekanandas booklet Call to the youth for nation building which inspired him to think deeper. He spent his spare time reading the works of Swami Vivekananda, Gandhi, and Vinoba Bhave.[19] In a blog post, Hazare expressed his views on Kashmirby saying that it was his active conviction that Kashmir is an integral part of India and that if required once again for service, he would remain ready to take part in war against Pakistan.[20] During his fifteen year career in the army (1960–75),[16] Anna Hazare was posted at a number of locations, including Punjab (Indo Pak war 1965), Nagaland, Bombay (1971) and Jammu (1974)[21] During the Indo pak war, Hazare survived a road crash while driving for the army. He interpreted his survival as a further sign that his life was intended to be dedicated to service.[15] He had another escape in Nagaland, where one night, underground Naga rebels attacked his post and killed all the inmates. He had a miraculous escape as he had gone out to return natures call and hence turned out to be the lone survivor.[22] Official rec (Wikipedia) CAN THIS GENTLEMEN LEAD THE NATION OR GUIDE LEADERS TO LEAD THE COUNTRY ?
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