In early 2001 I had a business meeting with the CEO of Drishtee.com Satyan Mishra in Patna, Bihar, who was also one of the co-founders of the company that my then company was dealing with. At that time, he explained to me about his ambitious Drishtee.com project which was about connecting villages through Internet kiosks for many activities [plz refer to http://www.drishtee.com].

I remember Satyan telling me that though the plan was revolutionary, already there were similar projects going on.

I was impressed to say the least listening to his mega plan for which he was seeking VC at that time.

I am not sure how successful he was (though I must say that the project is still on and Satyan recently told me that Drishtee was doing 'great').

It is a coincidence that his other company actually created a portal called Fund a School [http://www.fundaschool.org]for a Madhya Pradesh government body called Rajya Shiksha Kendra. It is a channel through which philanthropists can donate and fund a village school. As far as I knew in 2001, it was a resounding success then.