The high demand for learning centres in the villages is, as always, due to the high quality of teaching at the LCs, and, in no small measure, because of the continuing support of the community.
For the 54-year-old CK Venkataraman, the contrast between the haves and the have-nots has always been more glaring in India than other countries. The IIM-A alumnus, who hails from Coimbatore, quotes Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs & Steel’ and argues how fate can make one person more successful than another with the same potential. “It is