VK Desai

I am mechanical engineer and law graduate also. I am now in 80^th year. As I was born in poor farmer's family and as I am influenced by Mahatma Gandhi's life, my heart always burns for poor, oppressed and trodden people. But still I wasted 14 years of my precious young life in doing jobs for vested interest organizations like government, semi government organizations, big cooperatives etc. Then I summoned up all my courage and left the job in 1982 and founded company TINYTECH PLANTS PVT LTD which is now inactive for some time but I want to use it for small scale spinning machinery which I intend to manufacture. After some years, I founded TINYTECH PLANTS partnership firm which has become main company now and it is handled by my son Gopal Desai. Then I also established AADHUNIK GLOBAL ENERGY specially for manufacturing renewable energy equipments. Now I am using this firm for making cloth weaving machines such as power looms, pedal looms, solar looms, hand looms etc and also for tiny palm oil mills, steam engines, steam power plants and whatever I feel crucially necessary for the good of society. I also established proprietary firm AADHUNIK LOKPAL MACHINERY which I handed over to Gopal for any independent business of his own. Now my grand sons are using this firm for manufacturing sugarcane juice machines. All these firms are for development and dissemination of small and simple technology for creating and strengthening local economy.

During the first few years of my experience, I realized that the entire world is rushing in the dangerous direction of centralizing production, centralizing economic and political powers and more and more exploiting common masses not only in poor countries but also in developed countries. I realized that this rush of the world is going to strike to dead wall. So called development is going to be proved as mirage in the desert to billions of people.

I realized that all this centralization has become possible due to big and heavy industries and big machinery. So it is urgent necessity to create alternative to all big industries. During the experience, certain convictions took shape in my heart which I am trying to follow and which are described as MY BASIC CONVICTIONS. It is my faith that it will remain for ever with my soul and it will not be burnt when I die and when my body will be burnt.

During the last 20 years, I tried to develop wind mills, small wind turbines and its components such as permanent magnet generators, rotor blades, simple towers, parabolic solar cookers, large parabolic solar concentrators, steam engines and steam power plants etc. But after many years I realized that there is no big economic impact on life of poor people due to such renewable energy equipments. So recently I left and wound up solar and wind activity just to give justice to long cherished dream of decentralized cloth production in villages particularly cloth production in farms and villages from the cotton produced locally by farmers. I was carrying this dream since last 40 years in my heart. Accordingly since last 2 years, I am developing an innovating various looms such as power looms, hand looms, pedal looms, solar looms etc. I intend to develop cottage scale spinning machinery also. So at the age of 80 years, I am fully engrossed in technical development of textile machines to make available something revolutionary simple and cheap technology to produce cloth in the villages from their own cotton. As far as I can see the future of humanity, the most crucial technology is the technology for cloth making at cottage scale with minimum capital providing biggest employment opportunity and creating self reliant society there by abolishing maximum exploitation of poor masses. So this is the highest level of pious activity for me.

Manufacturing and exporting tiny oil mills is independently handled by my able son Gopal Desai who is also mechanical engineer. Now my two grand sons Satvik and Achyut are now fully grown up and very clever to run the business. Satvik has developed stainless steel sugarcane juice machine which has huge scope throughout the world. Gopal and his two sons are manufacturing and marketing PIO brand sugarcane juicer machines independently throughout the world. So my both grand sons are fully supporting his father Gopal and they are running business of tiny oil mill and sugarcane juicer independently.

In fact, development of appropriate technology is my partial activity. MY AREA OF INTERESTS describe my entire activity and thinking.

Mahatma Gandhi's inspiring thinking on industries combined with my practical experience of 30 years as Mechanical Engineer has carved the following Basic Convictions in my heart.

1. All the dreadful problems appearing nowadays in the world such as unemployment, hunger, exploitation, disparity, polution, urbanisation, war, terrorism etc. are direct result of heavy and centralized industries.
2. The modern civilization based on wasteful expenditure of natural resources is destined to end in near future.
3. Twenty first century is not in the hands of centralized heavy industries. Undercurrent of decentralization has already started; and by the end of first decade of new century, the world will throw away the dogma of industrialization.
4. Idea of "Everything under one roof" has become out dated. The process of splitting the bigger factories into small units has already started.
5. Principles of more economic viabilities for bigger units are illusionary. In fact where social cost is considered, bigger units can never be viable.
6. Complex giant technology has given rise to complex way of living, due to which greed and selfishness have captured human minds and we have lost the way of happiness.
7. Real happiness is possible only through simple living, which is possible through simple and small technology only. Complicated machinery makes simple thing also complicated.
8. World can live in peace and harmony only if we create self sustained societies.
9. When production is made for consumption and not for marketing, present theories of economics crumble down.
10. Small is possible at every stage, in every industry, in every country. Small is inevitable in every industry related to primary needs of the common masses in every country.
11. Present tax collection systems can exist only on centralized form of heavy industries. This facilitates and increases legalized robbery of people by Governments.
12. Transport is the curse to the mankind. It facilititates spreading of evils. Worldwide transport gives rise to worldwide exploitation.

My Horror

Whenever I see any big factory or industry, I am horrified to look at it, because it looks me as DEMON threatening the existence of humanity, its culture, its liberty, its freedom etc.

My Solace

Whenever I see any tiny cottage industry, I am pacified to look at it, because it looks me as GOD's blessing enriching the life-style of mankind, its culture, its liberty, its freedom etc.

1. The ensuing energy revolution throughout the world will drive out most of the evils created by industrial revolution of the last century.i.e. Poverty, unemployment, hunger, disparity, urbanization, pollution, terrorism, war, centralization etc will be reduced to the minimum.
2. Days of MW power have gone. Present century is for KW power. Energy revolution is poised to decentralization of not only energy production but also of all the industrial activity in the world.
3. Power plants up to10 kw generated by steam, solar, wind biogas or any other source is human, cheap, simple viable, manageable and beneficial to the humanity. Bigger than 10 kw is unhuman, costly, complicated, unmanagable and harmful to the society as it gives rise to the exploitation and other evils.
4. It is possible to devise all industrial activity of the world with 10 kw power or less.
5. It is possible to create the world without grid power lines.
6. If grid exists after 2 decades, electricity will flow in reverse direction i.e. from rural areas to big cities.
7. Steam power is coming back very fast and all the agricultual processing such as oil milling, sugarcane crushing, cotton ginning, rice milling, wood working will be shifted on steam power.
8. Solar thermal power plants of 10 kw or below will be millions in one or two decades.
9. Once the technology of making Photovoltaic solar cells is known, it will be left hand job for every Indian skillful woman to manufacture it at home no matter she may be illiterate. Then real home scale industries for every primary needs will blossom.
10. Transport will be reduced to minimum at the end of 21 century.

1. Decentralization of industries and creating alternative of all big industries particularly textile industry, edible oil industry, sugar industry, power and energy industry, cement industry etc.
2. Dissemination of Gandhiji's views, his books, his literature, his thinking.
3. To join and to support any movement for decentralization of political powers to grass root level.
4. To join and to support any movement for empowerment of women, to fight against injustice to women and to protect Indian culture by preserving womanhood.
5. To join and to support any movement for removing present centralized class room education system and replacing Ashram and home school system based on Gandhiji's ideas of true practical education while working through industries.
6. To join and to support any movement to abolish present judiciary system and bring back ancient Panch Nyay system.
7. To join and to support any movement for total strict prohibition throughout the India.
8. To join and to support any movement for free gun right for self defense as exists in USA and as it existed in India before 1912.
9. To join and to support any movement for freely establishing community radios without any license and Government interference.
10. To join and to support any movement for abolishing all India services like IAS, IPS,IFS etc.
11. To join and to support any movement for abolishing present constitution of India and adopt new CONSTITUTION FOR REAL SWARAJ written by me to cherish the dream of Gandhiji to make half million villages as sovereign states. (This is available on http://freedomindia.com.
12. To join and to support any movement for removing English and replacing regional languages and Hindi in all schools and universities including medical and engineering faculties.( I have written a book in Gujarati DANGERS OF ENGLISH MEDIUM and locally running MATRUBHASHA MADHYAM ANDOLAN.)

1. Outline Of Real Swaraj

   I wrote it in Gujarati and then I translated in English. Then Hindi, Marathi and Kannad editions have been published.

2. Constitution For Real Swaraj

   The word SWARAJ can not be translated in English but its meaning includes independence, freedom, liberty, self rule, self restraint, local rule etc

3. Gavon Ka Navsarjan (Hindi)

4. Tel Udyog Ka Swadeshikaran (Hindi)

5. Tel Udyog Nu Swadeshikaran ( Gujarati)

6. Khetre Khetre Solar Power (Gujarati)

7. Udyogo Vishe Gandhiji (Gujarati)

8. Vikas No Pardafash (Gujarati)

9. Vikas Ka Pardafash (Hindi)

10. Kelavani Manthan (Gujarati)

11. Kelavani Manthan (Gujarati)

12. Angreji Madhyam Ni Bhayankta ( Gujarati)

1. How I Manage My Business

2. India Of My Dream

3. Center of Economy - Family or Company?

4. Technology For Life ? OR Technology For Mass Exploitation ?

5. My Mission of Decentralization

6. My World Vision For Localization

7. Appeal To Patriotic Elites Of India

8. Appeal To Engineers

9. Appeal To Thermal Power Engineers

10. Appeal To African Elites

11. My Prayer For Africa

12. Appeal To European Elites

13. How Small Industries Blossom in Rajkot

14. Solar Power Plants MW or KW

15. Evils of Giant Power Houses & Its Solution

16. Let Us Re Shape India Through Solar Energy

17. Engineering Colleges Can Make India As Solar Paradise

18. Steam Power is The Key To Create Happiness

19. Steam Power For Freedom and Happiness

20. Quick Rural Electrification By Steam Power

21. Tiny Thermal Power Plants

22. Self Employment By Localization

23. Reducing Transport By Localization

24. Anti Social Entrepreneuership

25. Sovereign Village Republics

26. Gandhian Revolution Through Engineering Colleges

27. One Million Balloons Can Fly In Indian Sky

28. Sesmu Trains

29. Electric Vehicles

30. Electrification Of 100 Million Poor Homes Of India

31. Huge Scope Of Small Wind Turbines In India

32. I Am Enemy Of What?

33. My Area of Interests

34. My Basic Convictions

35. My Energy Convictions

36. My Industrial Vision

37. Rural Training Institutes - Suggestions

38. Farmers Can Generate 8 Lakh Mw Solar Power In India

39. Letter To Our Prime Minister - All Solutions At a Stretch

40. Economics Of Tiny Thermal Power Plants

41. Rice Husk Revolution

42. Rice Polishing Is Offense Against 2 Billion Starving People

43. Huge Scope Of 3 Lakh Tiny Rice Hullers

44. Textile Industry- Immediate Necessity For Decentralization

45. Solar Spinning Of 6000 Million Kg Lint Cotton In Farms

46. Practical Solution Of Poverty & Unemployment Of India

47. Revolution of Textile Spinning through PV Solar Power

48. Appeal To Textile Machinery Manufacturers

49. Huge Scope Of Tiny Oil Mills

50. Huge Scope of Ghani for Sani and Oil

51. How To Make Best Quality Jaggery

52. Benefits Of Decentralized Cooking Oil Industry

53. Tiny Palm Oil Mill With Independent Steam Power

54. Ghani For Cold Pressed Oil & Sani

55. Revolution Through Fresh Sugar Cane Juice Centers

56. Letter To Jaggery Producers

57. Steam Powered Sugarcane Crushers For Jaggery

58. Jaggery Plant- Boiling Pan Systems

59. Why Not Steam Powered Jaggery Plant?

60. Tiny Cement Plant Technology

61. Sugar V/S Jaggery

62. Sugar V/S Sugarcane Juice

63. Farmer’s Own Power House