THREE YEARS
ago a young man on vacation was cycling through the streets of Madurai
when he came across a person sitting under a bridge eating his own
waste. The stark desperation of the sight shook him profoundly and
drastically altered the course of his life.
Today, 23-year-old Krishnan cooks and distributes food to at least
a hundred people on the streets of Madurai. Each day he starts at
5.30 a.m. and ends at 10.30 p.m. offering breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Service his style leaves little space for anything else. He doesn't
read the newspapers or watch television. He doesn't go out with
friends or take vacations. But he can cut a kilo of onions in four
minutes flat and make 100 different varieties of pickle. His fragrant,
homemade `garam masala' has 30 separate ingredients
in it. He regrets nothing.
A week after the encounter under the bridge, Krishnan, known to
family and friends as Kishore, resigned from a high-salaried position
with a leading luxury hotel in Bangalore. A position he had spent
years training for and dreaming of.
"I felt I had unfinished work in Madurai,"
he says simply.
He returned home and told his anxious family that he intended to
feed people on the street, who couldn't feed themselves. He began
that very same day, starting with the man under the bridge.
We decided to help Akshaya Krishnan, as part of
our efforts on helping downtrodden and under-privileged Madurai
to build a New Madurai.
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