My Story
My brother and I went to the same school in India. He is two years younger than me. I did really well, but he wasn’t motivated to study and he would score poorly on tests. The teachers reactions were, “He is slow to pick up. He is somewhat dull.” They put him in a separate class that taught the same material, but only more slowly. And it was a problem for me because at home there is a certain tension that comes with one sibling doing so well and the other that doesn’t. And this was normal in many families we knew that there would be one child that does really well, and the other child does not. And nobody ever questioned the schools or what went on in the classroom. But you tried to sort of remedy that through external tutoring or by sending your child to a different school. I think that somehow stuck with me. I used to work in IT. I was an employee of IBM for 15 years. It was a comfortable job, and I was good at my job. But there was always an emotional connection missing.