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Selvaraj, from the 1998 - 2002 batch of Rajalakshmi Engineering College's (REC) Mechanical Engineering program, is currently heading a team of 200 employees at Jockey India. In his life as a student, however, there was a huge disparity between the dream of what he thought he would do and what he actually did. Born in a middleclass family from Tamil Nadu, Selvaraj did quite well in his studies and wanted to do medicine after his class 12. His preparations for medical entrance tests fell short and eventually started looking for a management seat available in the private medical colleges. However, Selveraj's family was not financially sound enough to manage the capitation fees asked by the private medical colleges and left him with no choice other than choosing engineering like his social group and friends of the family around him. While Selvaraj was busy bargaining for a medical seat, the top-notch engineering seats in the state were filling like hotcakes. "I was very late to take...
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