Roots & Wings - Building India's Deep Tech Ecosystem | Authorised Biography of Padma Shri Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala - Hardback

Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala joined IIT Madras as a young professor and transformed it into a living laboratory of innovation. Out of that vision grew the IITM Research Park, the birthplace of India's Deep Tech revolution and India's largest facility for collaboration between industry, academia and government Called the “Doyen of Deep Tech" by Forbes, he remains a Gandhian technologist, humble, visionary and tireless in his belief that India's future must be engineered by its own people. His conviction that the nation must be self-sufficient, strategically autonomous while globally engaged, aligns with India's pursuit of technological sovereignty and continues to inspire generations of innovators. "Roots and Wings" captures the stories of the ideas, start-ups, people and movements shaped by his mentorship, and how they continue to power India's Deep Tech revolution.*** "He has a rare gift: making people reach deeper within themselves and challenge what they thought possible." - Vani Kola, Managing Director, Kalaari Capital. "Neither is the list of his achievements exhaustive, nor is the man exhausted."  - M. Ramesh, The Hindu Business Line "He was a source of inspiration for many of us." - Nachiket Mor, Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health. "He made it feel like building something for India was not just a choice, rather it was a privilege." - Vineeta Singh, CEO, Sugar Cosmetics. ***Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala is a rare kind of teacher and leader. In 1981, when India’s brightest minds were leaving its shores, he returned to solve his country’s most pressing problems through technology that serves people. A professor, researcher and mentor who shaped hundreds of changemakers and made them believe that ‘impossible’ is just another problem waiting to be solved. He has always believed that India must build for itself and the world - a conviction as urgent today as it was four decades ago. Some of his bets succeeded, others failed, but together they laid the foundation for India's deep tech revolution. They say, ‘Grow where you are planted’. He chose to renew the soil itself, so that others could take root. What began as one man’s purpose has become a forest of ideas, where innovation is both humble and bold, and where India learns to dream differently.