![]() My father refused to use it to commute to the office. There was no garage in the Office, so the jeep was parked in our house. My parents set the foundation of my life and the value system, which makes me what I am today and largely, defines what success means to me today.Īs District Employment Officer, my father was given a jeep by the government. Raised by a widow who had come as a refugee from the then East Bengal, she was a matriculate when she married my Father. The family belongings fit into the back of a jeep – so the family moved from place to place and without any trouble, my Mother would set up an establishment and get us going. My father used to get transferred every year. As a result, I did not go to school until the age of eight I was home-schooled. There was no electricity no primary school nearby and water did not flow out of a tap. ![]() ![]() It was, and remains as back of beyond as you can imagine. My earliest memory of my father is as that of a District Employment Officer in Koraput, Orissa. I was the last child of a small-time government servant, in a family of five brothers. 12 June 2008, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India ![]()
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