: At 56, an IIT Alumni Gave up His Thriving Business To Help Form India’s RTI Act #IndiaNEWS #Changemakers “What does ‘freedom’ mean to you?�? “Today, it only means that man has the freedom

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At 56, an IIT Alumni Gave up His Thriving Business To Help Form India’s RTI Act #IndiaNEWS #Changemakers
“What does ‘freedom’ mean to you?�?



“Today, it only means that man has the freedom to starve, to go naked, to die of hunger, or go uneducated. �? 



At 20, as an IIT student and one of the subjects of SNS Sastry’s iconic documentary I Am 20 (1967), this was Shailesh Gandhi’s firm belief. After all, a newly independent India — struggling with a devastating drought, among the biggest devaluations of Indian currency at the time, two wars at her borders, and an increased reliance on foreign aid for military and agricultural needs — had a long way to go to attain that elusive ‘freedom’.  



Decades later, at an event, a faculty member asked him, “Shailesh, you used to say there are many things wrong with society. What is your feeling now

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