— Mr. Srinivas Alluri

We have expert cyclists, yoga practioners, IT gurus, Chiefs, proponents of change and leaders of people. In 2010 he cycled from London to New Delhi - more than 10,000 kms in 100 days covering 14 countries. For the past 30 years, he has not missed practising yoga for a single day. He was once a sought after principal architect for telecom networks across the world and can to this day pretty much create a computer from scratch - hardware, software, motherboards, transistors and all. The son of a farmer from a remote village on the bank of river Godavari now leads, Manavata, an organisation for social change that has more than 10,000 volunteers in the UK, USA, Australia, Singapore, China, Japan and India. Since 1991 his team have been helping quietly in the background during natural calamities such as the Gujarat earthquake of 2001, the Indian ocean tsunami of 2004 and the hudhud cyclone in Vizag. He has founded a successful IT middleware consulting organisation called Sandhata, spoken at the United Nations and is cited in Limca book of records for his cycling exploits. At the height of his IT career he gave it all up to focus fully on improving lives of people. Of all his achievements the one he is most proud of is that he has been able to make a difference to several lakhs of people around the world with his philosophy of simple and exemplary living. A living embodiment of the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda.