Frame A story of any dispute occurs in villages
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If you were to ask me who my hero is, it's not Nehru or Mahatma Gandhi. It's I M Vijayan, the boy who, after having started out selling soda at stadiums and playing barefoot, went on to become the best football player in India. He was such an inspiration that I had his photo in my room, and used to pray to him before each game. He was my God!' says 34-year-old Varun Chandran.
Varun Chandran's own journey, from an impoverished home in a small village in Kerala, to a Silicon Valley millionaire, follows a like pattern.
As a small boy his ambition didn't go beyond chopping logs in the forests like his father, or following his uncle into the Army.
Varun was born in Paadam, a small village near Kollam. Most of the 800 families were poor landless labourers working in the nearby forest.
But the village owes its growth to Varun's maternal grandfather, Karam Velal Sadananthan, who moved there to farm tapioca. The pioneering spirit could thus be a family inheritance.
'My grandfather was a local hero -- a communist who got roads built and brought the first bus to the village. He even had an eatery where he served free food to people. This resulted in ever more people migrating to the village. He also fed the bus driver and conductor for free so that they were encouraged to come to the village,' Varun recollects.
His grandmother was also a hardworking woman who tapped toddy in the jungle and sold it to the workers who worked in the forest.
'I saw a lot of hard working people in th
Varun Chandran's own journey, from an impoverished home in a small village in Kerala, to a Silicon Valley millionaire, follows a like pattern.
As a small boy his ambition didn't go beyond chopping logs in the forests like his father, or following his uncle into the Army.
Varun was born in Paadam, a small village near Kollam. Most of the 800 families were poor landless labourers working in the nearby forest.
But the village owes its growth to Varun's maternal grandfather, Karam Velal Sadananthan, who moved there to farm tapioca. The pioneering spirit could thus be a family inheritance.
'My grandfather was a local hero -- a communist who got roads built and brought the first bus to the village. He even had an eatery where he served free food to people. This resulted in ever more people migrating to the village. He also fed the bus driver and conductor for free so that they were encouraged to come to the village,' Varun recollects.
His grandmother was also a hardworking woman who tapped toddy in the jungle and sold it to the workers who worked in the forest.
'I saw a lot of hard working people in th
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