A R Shivakumar, the man who doesn't need a water connection

Over the last several years, Bengaluru-based A R Shivakumar has had hundreds of people asking him to help plan and build their homes. Shivakumar is not an architect by training, nor is he in the business of real estate. 

His business card says Shivakumar is the principal scientific officer at the Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Science. But turn the card around and you see a cartoon of a man in the rain. Unmindful of those staring at him at a bus stop, the cartoon shows the man holding his umbrella inside out, allowing rainwater