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October 1, 2008
How liberalisation has changed you & me
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Those who started working at the time of liberalisation are learning to live in an india very different from the one they were raised to expect. They work hard, and yet have to make an effort to relax, order themselves to enjoy life
If Mathur's is a generation that exudes the confidence of having grown up amid certainty and prosperity, Anurag Sahai belongs to one that has the assurance and experience of straddling two worlds. Growing up in the '80s, Sahai was educated and raised with the values of frugal India--one in which middle class parents obsessed about grooming their children into engineers and doctors, the only two professions that assured employment and life-long employability.
"Life was very different then and the choice of careers was pretty limited," says Sahai. "In a place like Kanpur, where I grew up, pretty much everybody aimed for engineering or medicine. I got into ceramic engineering at IT-BHU and decided to take it up because it was a national level college. In those days, we pretty much took what we got." By the time he graduated in engineering, Sahai realised that he did not want to be an engineer. So he took the next option and decided to do an MBA. Armed with a business degree in the early 90s, Sahai rode the post-liberalised corporate world. "At every crossroad of my education, I was looking for a safety net. After 12th standard, engineering was a safe bet. At the next stage, an MBA seemed a safe choice," he says.
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