A TREE GROWS IN CHENNAI
How did one woman dashing into the traffic on Haddows Road Chennai in 1993, spark off the peoples movement that is today The Banyan?
She was obviously mentally ill, half-naked with matted hair. She was an eye-opener to India's nowhere people. The nobodies that no one wanted to acknowledge existed.
It started as a kneejerk response to a responsibility that no one was willing to take up. Quite truthfully neither were we.
We were too young, raw, inexperienced. We were used to pointing fingers at others whenever confronted with a problem. Here we could only point fingers at ourselves.
And so with heart overruling the head, The Banyan was born. Admittedly, we weren't the best or the most qualified option, but we were the only option!
MESSAGE FROM THE BANYAN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MUMBAI MARATHON