Father figure

My daddy is an extraordinary man. His life represents the middle class superlative that is India. His journey began from the heart of small town India, that wretched place we call Patna. My father had a very simple upbringing with none of the pretenses of an English Convent school upbringing. He studied in a Hindi medium government school and by sheer dint of hard work and individual merit, completed his engineering from Patna Engineering College (now rechristened as National Institute of Technology). By chance, he sat for the CAT exams and managed to get a scholarship to study management in IAM, Kolkata. From then on, this young Bengali man from Bihar joined the corporate bandwagon and secured his future. My father's journey acts as a strong reminder for me. His road to success is the story of middle class India finding a place for itself in the sun.