Over the past three decades, the 59-year-old management Professor Anil
Gupta has been giving voice to thousands of unsung innovators across
India and other parts of the world. He emphasizes on innovations that
improve our ordinary life and believes that the most innovative and
powerful ideas for fighting the adversity and poverty don’t come from
the giant corporate research labs but from the strong desire to deal
with them with courage and positive attitude. To initiate his idea, he
began the Honey Bee Network
and started visiting the whole country, sometimes on foot with
colleagues, in search of the struggle of common people. The journey that
he started in mid 80s still continues and he’s come across a vast range
of innovations and thousands of grassroot innovators. Through the Honey
Bee Network, he’s revealed approximately 25,000 revolutionary
inventions – the bicycle-mounted crop sprayer, A device for climbing
coconut trees, water walking shoes to walk or skate across a lake, a
micro-windmill battery charger, electric paintbrush that never needs to
be dipped in a paint can, a hoe powered by a bicycle and many more
to deal with the hassles of daily lives. Over the years, he has been
successfully promoting the inventions that aim at agricultural reform.
Some of such inexpensive but impactful inventions include a makeshift
seat to let coconut harvesters rest high up in trees, a more dynamic
strain of peppers, a hollow spear to make a hole in a field and drops in
seeds.
