He built 140 bridges in places where rivers could isolate entire villages: How Girish Bharadwaj went from being a mechanical engineer in Karnataka to the ‘Bridge Man of India’
Born on May 12, 1950, Bharadwaj grew up in Aletty, a remote village in Sullia taluk. For Girish Bharadwaj, a bridge was not simply a structure over a river. It was a way for a child to reach school, a patient to get to a hospital and a farmer to take produce to the market….