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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XIII No.8

BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla I
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, t’s highly unlikely that you’ll encounter an individual as enthused
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, by the surprisingly unsung exploits and initiatives of Barefoot Col-
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma (Mumbai); Dr.
Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Dr. Geeta Kingdon lege, Tilonia (Rajasthan) as your correspondent. During the past
(Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Jeroninio decade, I have written three cover features on this pioneer com-
Almeida, Premchand Palety (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); munity college which has greened the desert landscape of Tilonia (pop.4,500)
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta and a cluster of villages in its neighbourhood, and restored the dignity and
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama akore (London)
self-respect of thousands of rural folk of Ajmer district.
EDITOR The promotion and development of BC into a model education institution
Dilip akore based on Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy and development model by Sanjit
MANAGING EDITOR (Bunker) Roy, an alum of the The Doon School, Dehradun and Delhi’s blue-
Summiya Yasmeen chip St. Stephens’s College, is a story of extraordinary grit and determination
CHIEF SUB EDITOR to deliver some benefits of the successful freedom movement led by Gandhiji
Sundar Anand to the neglected majority of rural Bharat, the other India.
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi The decision of newly independent India to take the socialist road and pri-
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) oritise development of heavy industry through promotion of monopoly public
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) sector enterprises (PSEs) has proved a disastrous failure. Managed by venal
9500506102, Dipta Joshi (Mumbai) 9920243111 politicians and business-illiterate bureaucrats, PSEs have egregiously failed to
CHIEF EXECUTIVE generate the promised surpluses (‘profit’ is a dirty word in the leftist lexicon)
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867 for investment in public education, healthcare and infrastructure in rural
MARKETING India which has evolved into poor, backward and illiterate Bharat, almost
West: Tejas Pattni (General Manager) 9022487997 another country. Although 65 percent of India’s population toils in hinterland
Aasana Jain (Marketing Manager) Bharat, it contributes a mere 16 percent of annual GDP and the average per
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South India: Poonam Shah 9731966373 capita income of Bharat is half of urban India.
North: Hannan Ahmed 9810302768 This is the iniquity that the Barefoot College management led by Roy has
GRAPHICS successfully addressed since this community college was established fifty
Suresh K. years ago in the water-stressed boondocks of Rajasthan. Early this year, BC
SUBSCRIPTIONS modestly celebrated its Golden Jubilee, a landmark which inspired the third
Kiran Kumar: 9108225694/ detailed cover feature on this grassroots development model which on merit
080 43711141 should have been replicated in all 742 districts of India, but has not been. Why
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