SKY IS THE LIMIT

It was Pongal with a difference for Ram Krishnan, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, who spent it in Vilathikulam, a village in Tamil Nadu. Vilathikulam in Ramanathapuram district is one of the driest regions in the state. On an average, it receives only nine days of rainfall in a year. But the parched village has seven million litres of water in three ponds today, thanks to Krishnan's efforts. His involvement with Vilathikulam started four years ago. Today, the villagers are like his family. In fact, he had invited many of them to the Pan IIT conference in Chennai in December and also arranged rural visits for the alumni, hoping to motivate some of them into working for the betterment of poor Indian villages. The villagers are like Krishnan's family Krishnan, 62, migrated to the United States over 30 years ago and lives with his family in St Paul, Minnesota. Like most IIT graduates, he opted for a well-paying job abroad after finishing his studies. But ...

Yesterday i came across one interesting article in Rediff, "An engineer from IIT, now a farmer". I went through the article and found such an interesting one that i wanted to publish the same in my blog, so that any one visiting my blog will be privileged to read this interesting story of a legendary person alive today...... So here we go....... Off-beat is in. The often beaten track, not so. One of the most interesting themes at this year's Pan-IIT event was the session on rural transformation. IITians who have chosen an offbeat career hogged the limelight at the event. In this series, we feature some of the IITians who preferred to be different, rather than get into a corporate rat race. The star at the event was R Madhavan, an alumnus of IIT-Madras. This is Madhavan's success story as a farmer. . . Passion for agriculture I had a passion for agriculture even when I was young. I don't know how my love for agriculture started. I only know that I have always been ...