From an off-grid village to power technologist

Near Thimmannapalem, a remote village in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh where O D Naidu spent most of his childhood, the sun gods determined the working hours. His off-grid house, built close to the farm where his father worked, did not have access to electricity till the early 2000s. Even at the government hostel in Chodavaram where he finished his schooling, the nights were usually spent in the dark due to power outages.

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