Many students wrote in saying they have an idea but this one has actually worked on his and created a prototype! It simply shows that you are never too young or ‘not qualified enough’ to exhibit a spirit of entrepreneurship.

Namaste,
My name is Naman Sanghvi, I was a student of Eklavya, Ahmedabad and am currently pursuing a Btech in Mechanical and Energy engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology. I am in my 2nd year right now.

First of all congratulations for the success of your book ‘Stay Hungry Stay Foolish’ and also thank you, it was really enlightening for a confused student like me. In fact since the past 2 years I had been working on an agricultural project, i was basically working on a modified version of drip irrigation to make it more affordable and applicable.

In fact on 3rd december I made a presentation at IIT Chennai to a jury which included Ms Laura Parkin- Director NEN. I was awarded 1st place at that competition. I have attached a photo of my work.

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In fact when i was at IIT i talked to a retired farmer who told me about real time problems that he had faced. Sfter talking to him I was convinced that all the work I had done was waste, that it had no future in a grossly corrupt country like India. I was convinced that nothing could be done, I had lost my faith in my project…..

And then I read about one Vijay Mahajan in your book, and i was fascinated. His story gave me hope, his story made me re-think… in fact back at my college i have now been granted half an acre land to test my irrigation system on a larger scale for some 3000 plants.

I do not know what the future is, what will happen next, but your book and the story of Vijay Mahajan gave me a renewed hope for which i cannot thank you enough.

In fact I thought of getting in touch with him, talk to him about the rural sector, take advice from him. I realised that if someone could help me and guide me it was him. I tried contacting him at the email-address that is there in the book but somehow there is some sort of delivery error. Can you please help?

I am happy to report I was able to connect Naman with Vijay Mahajan. They will be meeting/ discussing how to refine Naman’s idea in the near future<

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