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Bunker Roy

(1945) Activist

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Bunker Roy is an activist.

Quick Facts About Bunker Roy

Born: August 2, 1945
Profession: Activist

About Bunker Roy

[Wikidata] Indian social activist... | [Wikipedia] Sanjit "Bunker" Roy is an Indian social activist and educator who founded the Barefoot College. He was selected as one of Time 100's 100 most influential personalities in 2010 for his work in educating illiterate and semi-literate rural Indians. Roy was awarded the Padma Shri by Giani Zail Singh in

Quotes by Bunker Roy

Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a…

Any

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In India, I'm always 'Aruna Roy's husband.'

Always

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Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.

Inspirational

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I went to a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and it almost killed me. I was all set to be…

Almost

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Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They…

Africa

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Jeff Sachs has the Millennium Villages. He spends $2.5 million in one village. It's an absolutely ridiculous model, because I've said that…

Absolutely

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School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from…

Community

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What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

Best way

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I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

Destroyed

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The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the…

Adopting

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We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought…

Benefits

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Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self…

Areas

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We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.

Financially

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You have to be a cop-out or a wash-out or a dropout to come to our college. You have to work with…

Barefoot

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Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six…

Engineering

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The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

Evening

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[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Barefoot

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In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of…

Back

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You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to…

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