Indukanth Ragade holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Madras (1963) and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Universities of Illinois and South Carolina from 1964 to 1967. He was with M/s Alacrity Foundations (P) Ltd., Chennai an organization involved in the construction of quality apartment complexes from 1984 to 2004. A keen urban environmentalist, he has, over the past two decades, pioneered the practice of rainwater harvesting, recycling and reuse of grey water in the urban context by installing these systems in the various apartment complexes built by M/sAlacrity. He has also authored and published (2005) a book titled "Self-Reliance in Water - A Practical Manual for Town and City Dwellers".