6 People, Who Chose A Different Path And Are Making A Difference

By siliconindia  |   Tuesday, 24 November 2015, 22:38 IST
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sdShuvajit Payne:



Shuvajit Payne graduated in economics from the Presidency College, Kolkata. He then did MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow in finance and marketing and went abroad like many of his peers. He had a dream job with IBM in London, owned high-tech gadgets, went on foreign trips and had all the luxuries a 27-year-old could possibly imagine. Payne, an IIM grad, was working in London, enjoying yearly vacations and living life king-size.



Three years into the corporate life, Payne decided to quit and come back to India. He decided to work in rural India and make a change. Payne started with teaching English under State Bank of India’s Youth for India program. 



sdSanjay Mucharla:



Sanjay was working for Facebook in California, as a marketing analyst, and was living the life everybody would want to live. Yet he gave it all up to join Project Khel as a project coordinator. Project Khel is an NGO that uses sports and other interactive methods to transform the lives of children.



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