An engineer can transform lives. Girish Bharadwaj learnt that by sheer chance and stayed hooked. When he got his mechanical engineering degree as a young man he hoped to find a good job and settle down in a big city. Things didn't work out that way. Instead he had to set up a workshop in his village in Karnataka's Dakshina Kannada district.
One day a forest officer asked him to build a small hanging bridge in Kodagu district. Despite having no experience in building bridges, Bharadwaj took on the work and hasn't looked. . .