Readers Digest in its November issue this year carried this story of Alexis Leon. The article was written by Madhavankutty Pillai. Alexis Leon was a topper in the Trivandrum Engineering College and had a great future ahead of him when he graduated and was beginning to establish himself in his career as an IT Professional. At 27 years he was also getting married to someone he liked and was beginning to love. Till it all came to a near end with a fateful road accident. Alexis was paralysed from the waist down and needed a wheel chair to move.
His marriage was called of and he needed serious medical help. He however fought back and went back to work at TCS. He has also used his phenomenal memory and extraordinary faculties to write bestselling books in IT. Starting with Vikas Gupta's Pustak Mahal which published his bestseller "Information Control Systems""IBM Mainframe and Year 2000 solutions" was the next best seller by this engineer whose interests ranged from artificial intelligence to heart surgery. P.K. Madhavan from Chennai got him to write "Internet for everyone" It sold 100,000 copies and still sells 2500 a year!!Tata McGraw-Hill, India’s biggest
publisher of educational and professionalbooks, has published 15 ofLeon’s books; two of them have beentranslated into Mandarin-Chinese.And Artech House, USA, publishedhis A Guide to Software ConfigurationManagement.Incidentally this is an esoteric subject in which you get hardly 11 books on the subject and naturally the book by Alexis is an all time best seller.
The Internet—and Leon’s sixwebsites including his alexisleon.comand leon-leon.com(companion site forhis books) can be visited to know more about this fighter...
alexis@alexisleon.com
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