Question 1212: Eating your brains out...

Even though, X was not physically eligible, he was selected on grounds of emergency recruitment for the Indian Army. He started his career in the Indian Army as a driver in 1963. During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, while posted at the border in the Khem Karan sector, all of X's comrades were killed in a Pakistan offensive and he was the sole survivor of his convoy. X had a near death experience as one bullet had shot past his head. This led him to dwell on the purpose and meaning of life and death. He read Swami Vivekananda's "Call to the youth for nation building". He realized that saints sacrificed their own happiness for that of others, and that he needed to work towards reducing the sufferings of the poor. He started reading Vivekananda, Gandhi, and Vinoba Bhave. In the 1970s, he again survived a road accident while driving. It was at that particular moment that X took an oath to dedicate his life to the service of humanity. In 1975, he left the army as soon as he become eligible for receiving pension.

And as they say, the rest is history...

Identify X. Answer: Anna Hazare