Tamil Nadu

An officer celebrated by his colleagues and common citizens alike, Shetty has a village in Karnataka named in his honour by grateful locals. He will be deeply missed.

Once rediscovered, the pages electrified the world of mathematics. They were what the physicist Freeman Dyson remarked “flowers that grew from seeds that ripened in Ramanujan’s garden”.

Illuminating lives, quite literally, Ashok and Dhanalakshmi have together built this venture through equal participation and belief in one another.

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The researchers cultured a fungus in the lab and subsequently assessed its role in promoting plant growth in water deficit conditions.

According to the local communities, it was Dr J Radhakrishnan who went the extra mile to make sure help reached them, while most government vehicles steered right away from their village.

25 years ago, when this young teenager with no degree made the journey from England to Tamil Nadu, he hardly had an idea about how life-altering the decision would be.

With the installation of solar panels, the school can now easily save up to Rs 15,000 that otherwise was spent on electricity bills once in two months.

"He even told me that he hardly gets to see his children because he is too busy driving the cab to earn money. He had just returned from a trip to Tirupati that morning, and by evening, he had accepted our ride request,"

As Harvard scientists and even school children are developing new, innovative methods to utilise this wonder grass, farmers in Tamil Nadu have started its cultivation for large profit margins.