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 A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS : India Today - January 1996 - Cover story

Even if we did want to do something, we ask ourselves; Where do I begin ?
It is normally followed by another question: Can I really be of much help ?

In this poem road not taken, Robert Frost hints at the answer ;

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by. And that has made all the difference.

Some people, took the path that all of us hestitate to take for want of time or caring, The road to change, as they found out, is strewn with thorns. It is a long and winding one, always uphill. But their journey has already made a remarkable difference to the lives of the people they wanted to help.

Philosopher Kahlil Gibran would describe them as "those who have little and give it all". These people are India's quiet revolutionaries. They are what Mahatma Gandhi would have called "determined spirits who are fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission".

Harnath Jagawat, "A man for all seasons" is one such person.

His work is very much in evidence as you drive through the rocky hills of Panchmahals in Gujarat. Lush green farms, soothing oasis in the dry, brown terrain now dot much of the district, a backward area of Gujarat. They are symbols of the dramatic transformation that Harnath Jagawat, 58, a former personnel officer in a private company and his dedicated team, has brought in one of the country's most arid regions.

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