Infinite Vision

PROLOGUECLIMBING EVEREST

In an interview with Aravind’s founder, questions shoot out like impatient arrows from Justin Huggler, Asia correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent: “How? How did you do it all? How do you keep on keeping on the way you do? How do you persuade so many others to do the same?”⁶

Dr. V, who can sometimes be very somber during interviews, is at his sunniest. He smiles and says nothing. “How did you manage to do it all, Dr. V?” Huggler persists, and Dr. V chortles. “You know, there are people who have climbed Mount Everest,” he says in his strongly accented English. When you spend some time with Dr. V, you eventually begin to understand his seemingly irrelevant answers to questions that refer too closely to ...