Rahul Banerjee did not make his millions in the Silicon Valley. In fact, he has never been to the Silicon Valley. He hasn’t made his millions either.

Instead he has written a book- and the book has not found a publisher. So he did not make his millions this way either.

But Rahul Banerjee found a wealth of experience and inner satisfaction of having spent a life among the poorest of the poor in the country. He represents that diminishing tribe of middle- class young men and women fired with an empathy for the downtrodden, forsake what could have been more comfortable lives, to work for, and with what Dostoevsky’s called the ‘insulted and the humiliated’.

Bhupinder points this out.

There are many such IITians who have forsaken the big bucks so as to follow their hearts. I know quiet few of them who have returned to India after PhD, in the US, to work as  social worker. Its not about making big money but its all about doing what you like the best. I must admit that this won’t have been an easy step to take because money does matter and especially if all your classmates are making million dollars an year. But then living life the way it pleases is more important than living lavishly but still suffering from infinite diseases of mind, body and soul. What say?