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Google search for info about him and his work:

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=alex+leeor+earthship+karun...



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prf.kishorekumar [] google's email. thanks :)

AKASH seems pretty interesting, thanks for the link!

There is a guy who has dedicated his career to this :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilayanur_S._Ramachandran


There's a Wikipedia page for the forest [0] and the man (Jadav Payeng) too [1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molai_forest

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadav_Payeng


Tharoor wrote a couple of blog posts on him that are easy to find. In fact they were discussed on HN recently after I had posted

Good idea!

Here's Kamal's thorough bio page: https://examine.com/user/kamalpatel/

Here's Kamal verified on twitter: https://twitter.com/zenkamal

Here's him on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamal_Patel_(researcher)

Here's Examine.com on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examine.com


Google pre-Sundar*

his profile says he is in India

Google will do all the pointing you need and then some, there is a lot of material about him on the web.

And a lot of the Indian sources are in fact in English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratan_Tata

Lots of good links there too.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ratan+tata+biography

https://www.google.com/search?q=ratan+tata

https://www.google.com/search?q=tata+steel

The most interesting parts to me are how he managed to leverage his starting position (definitely not at 0) to the point where he made a play for international expansion.


I had a chance to visit one of academy he helped establish, adivasi academy(their domain name has expired), tejgarh, vadodra. I really liked how he played the role of catalyst in helping local people recognize their own culture and preserve it. [Edit]: My bad for linking to the infested URL, didn't realize it.

Btw the character itself is possibly that of Aditya Agarwal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aditya_Agarwal

He has something in common with Indian housewives and temples: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/07/14/indias-600-bil...

I don't think anything exists on the English language internet about that. (I doubt Saiva Vellalars hangout there, but I also have no idea who they are.) Wheras so many people insist he is Brahmin that if you enter "google CEO caste" into Google search, the algorithm spits out "Brahmin" (this is more of an amusing detail)

"Call Google. Ask for Sundar."

I used to work at Yahoo. This guy was a tool. A cursory search on Google explains all.

http://images.google.com/images?oq=gurb&sourceid=chrome&...


Reminds me of Manjhi, another guy who also kept chiseling a mountain for 22 years to create a path for fellow villagers (1).

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi


Alex at alexandarnarayan dot com

Trivia: The author is the son of a prominent South Indian politician Shashi Tharoor. The flair for writing seems to run in the family.

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