Dinesh Patel: Our Own Home-Grown 'Neo', Classmate, Friend and Visionary

Rajesh Kapoor

Dinesh Patel

Kapadvanj, Gujrat

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Rajesh Kapoor

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This is a Unique Story of Dinesh Patel: I call him our own home-grown 'Neo' because very early on in Life Dinesh Bhai (as I call him) swallowed 'The Red Pill' while most of us in his class decided to Live in ‘The Matrix’ for many more years to come. Moving quickly away from a 'not so successful' academic pursuit, Dinesh became a successful businessman, a family man fathering two sons who are now independent Young Men and productive citizens. Our Neo was to find his 'Morpheus' in his own Father with whom the strong bond and partnership continues to this day. Guided by their Spiritual Guru "Dada Saheb" and the Father-Son(s) Trio embraced their roots with an exodus back to their Home Town in Antroli, a village in Kapadwanj Taluka, Kheda district in Central Gujarat. Here, they pioneered Eucalyptus Plantation in Gujarat that was unheard of before. Today, while two generations of the Patels Live in the Tranquil and Beautiful Farmland in Antroli, the third generation: Dinesh's two sons are hi-tech entrepreneurs in Ahmedabad a mere 60kms away. In this candid conversation that was recorded right in the middle of the farm amidst thousands of Eucalyptus trees, we touch upon School, Career, Passion for Agriculture, Nationalism and even political ambitions and ideology. Dinesh is a stellar story teller and he has a story worth telling...

Rajesh Kapoor

Kapadvanj, Gujrat

Dinesh Patel

Kapadvanj, Gujrat