A city-bred lad from upscale suburb of Ahmedabad felt a rush of empathy on learning about the plight of those who feed us all by the sweat of their brow - the farmers.

   There was this news that 20 farmers died and 25 lost their vision due to infection caused by spraying poisonous pesticides in the farms in the Yavatmal district of the drought-prone Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. It set Rohan Parekh, 16, thinking.

   A student of Cambridge Board at the Ahmedabad International School, Rohan stole time out of the gruelling schedule of the school to spend some time with the farmers to educate them about spraying pesticides.

  Having gone into the nitty-gritty of spraying the life-threatening pesticides, Rohan recently visited Kuvara and Vagdod villages in the Patan district of Gujarat, equipped with the educational kit of placards and banners showing the right way of using the....