Greetings from Team SA!

He is all around! In media, posters, websites, blogs, facebook, twitter and hearts of millions of Indians. He is the new national icon. He is Anna Hazare! We all saw the entire nation came out to the streets with infectious excitement to celebrate his Victory only next to the World Cup Win!. Anna Hazare rose to fame not because of stardom, reality shows, business acumen or academic excellence but for a simple fact that he represented and reacted the way a common Indian always wanted to. 

Corruption had become so much a part of daily lives that you have to bear the demon whether you want it or not. Right from normal sepoy to high ranking bureaucrat, a local panchayat president to MPs and MLAs all were reaping the benefits of slowly catching up norm called ‘corruption’. What was brewing inside a common man was not just anger and frustration but a deeply rooted feeling of helplessness which was slowly leading to a feeling of collective cynicism. It was at this point of time that Anna Hazare came as a voice, strong and loud in public to protest against the slow and steady evil of corruption. There is no wonder that it became the single most unifying mass movement in history of India after freedom struggle. Anna indeed was successful in mobilising so far dormant, cynical and apathetic middle class to issues of public importance at large. The campaign had brought back Patriotism and feeling of ‘secular India’ at a time when different religions are at logger heads. Union of civil society for a common cause transcended from ‘history’ to present. We could say India is not just incredible but unpredictable too... 

JAI HIND