Swa­mi Agnivesh, win­ner of the Alter­na­tive Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Liveli­hood Award), 2004, is a cyclonic Swa­mi. At the young age of 28, he aban­doned a promis­ing career as a pro­fes­sor of law and man­age­ment in Cal­cut­ta for a life of activism.