A chapter on Anand Kumar in the book. Telegraph picture

Patna, June 21: Super 30 founder Anand Kumar has added yet another feather to his cap. He has now to his credit a full chapter on him in a Japanese book.

Titled Indi No Shougeki (Impact of India), the book has ten chapters which talk about the turnaround India has scripted in past few years for accelerating the pace of economic development.

Apart from dealing with broader issues, the book mentions in detail about Infosys founder Narayan Murthy and Super 30 founder Anand Kumar.

Written by a group of journalists of Japan’s popular TV channel NHK, the book carries a price tag of 1800 yen and says that education has played a major role in scripting the success story of India.

Emiko Awagawa of NHK channel, who headed the team of journalists who worked on the book, spent three days in Bihar to study Anand’s initiative.

The chapter on Anand talks about how the academic, who himself could not go to Cambridge for want to money, is helping several talented students from underprivileged families go for higher education.

“She had come to my place around two years ago. She also visited villages of some of the successful students of Super 30 to collect detailed information about the way students are groomed for cracking the engineering entrance examination,” Anand told The Telegraph.

Though the Super 30 founder knew a book was being written and a chapter was being dedicated to him, yet he was pleasantly surprised when one young boy from Japan recently came to meet him and presented him a copy of the book.

“It was a very touching gesture as I never thought young people from Japan would show so much respect to me,” said Anand, adding: “The Japanese boy, Takyuki Doi, also informed me that the book has become quite popular among the students of Japan Management School and some of them are also planning to come to India to meet me.”

It is not for the first time that Anand has received accolades in Japan. In the past few years, several prominent persons from the east Asian country have come to meet him and have also made films on him which were aired on popular TV channels of the country.

Recently, Yuta Amma, director of Japan’s popular TV channel Kansai Telecasting Corporation had come to Patna to make a documentary on Anand and his Super 30 institute. Yoichi Itoh, chief economist of Japan’s STB Research Institute had also come to make an hour-long documentary for NHK channel. The documentary on Super 30 evoked tremendous response in Japan, read the letter sent by Emiko Amagawa, producer of NHK channel, to Anand.