Infinite Vision: How Aravind Became the World’s Greatest Business Case for Compassion
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Pavithra K Mehta and Suchitra Shenoy
Collins Business
336 pages, R499
In 1976, 58-year-old Dr Govindappa Venkataswamy founded the Aravind Eye Hospital—run out of a rented home—in Madurai. Today, the Aravind Eye Care System is the world’s largest and most productive blindness prevention organisation. It has performed more than four million surgeries and treated more than 32 million patients, a third of them for free. The authors delve into the ethos that drives Aravind and the man who founded it.
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