When Lucknow-based Anurag Tiwari scored 48 per cent in class 12, snide remarks and unsolicited advice came pouring in. Tiwari himself flitted between tears and tension, wondering why he couldn't match his 55 per cent from high school. His father, a cashier in UP’s state transport corporation, had no money to pay for an engineering seat. Tiwari was forced to do an arts course. “I was told I would get nowhere in life,” he recalls. Yet he signed up for a one-year computer programming diploma. Initially, the course proved a nightmare. His Hindi language background preventing him from understanding the lessons. “I read English newspapers, pored through grammar texts and practiced speaking in front of the mirror,” he says. Tiwari then shifted to Delhi and moved through several ill-paid jobs.
“The lack of marks did not hold me back. If you have experience and skill, all barriers fall through”, says the 30-year-old who, as Infrastructure Leader at the Indian arm of Steria Limited, one of the world’s technology and business outsourcing leaders, steers a team of 20 across the company’s locations in India.
Today he zips across foreign locations for projects. “People have a right to comment on your lack of success. Though the remarks hurt, take them as spurs," says the cricket buff.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2009
“The lack of marks did not hold me back. If you have experience and skill, all barriers fall through”, says the 30-year-old who, as Infrastructure Leader at the Indian arm of Steria Limited, one of the world’s technology and business outsourcing leaders, steers a team of 20 across the company’s locations in India.
Today he zips across foreign locations for projects. “People have a right to comment on your lack of success. Though the remarks hurt, take them as spurs," says the cricket buff.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2009
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