Asian Age…9th June 2013...
Aabid Surti: Drop Dead is my biggest achievement
Aabid Surti is a National Award-winning author, artist, cartoonist and playwright. But when asked about his biggest achievement in life he believes it is his non-governmental organisation — Drop Dead — which has fixed thousands of leaking taps and kept billions of litres of water from being wasted… Read full story: https://gulfnews.com/general/aabid-surti-drop-dead-is-my-biggest-achievement-1.1207958 ...
Aabid Surti: The painter who catches every drop – Saving The Planet, One Drop At A Time
Save every drop or drop dead. That’s all Aabid Surti has to say to each one of us. The National Award winning septuagenarian author and artist, along with a partner, plugs drips in homes in a Mumbai suburb, free… Read full story : https://bhushan.quora.com/Aabid-Surti-The-painter-who-catches-every-drop-Saving-The-Planet-One-Drop-At-A-Time?ref=fb...
A Writer, a Plumber and a Plan to Save the Planet
Mar 25, 2013— “Aabid Surti is an odd character. A few years ago, the angular, bearded author was invited to meet the President of India to receive a national award for literature at a ceremony in the capital, New Delhi. He politely declined. Absorbed in writing the first draft of his new novel, he...
Save Every Drop… or Drop Dead
As a distinguished Indian painter and author, Aabid Surti has written around 80 books but no story so moved him as the truth about water scarcity on the planet. “I read an interview of the former UN chief Boutros Boutros Ghali,” he recalls, “who said that by 2025 more than 40 countries are expected...