Born in 1932, JOHN BANIYAN DAS, was a different child among two brothers and five sisters. As a child he would make bricks from empty matchboxes and slushy mud. When dried in the sun, with these small bricks John would make small buildings of his design. When he was in Class-3 he scored such high marks that his teachers promoted him to Class-5. He went on Odisha Government Scholarship to study B.SC Engineering to Patna Engineering College (now NIT), after completing his Pre-Professional Scien