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Soft Focus
A Better Life
Away from Home
Better education, improved quality of life, work life balance and rebuilding a
new life far away from home. Eight NRIs share why settling abroad was their
calling by Satish Puri
Mohit Sehgal – 22 years in the US My euphoria about using my engineering
A Computer Engineer by profession with an knowledge coupled with business acumen
MBA degree, I work as a Chief Technology took a jolt. We in India, were IT back office
Officer [CTO] with an Automation firm kings. The government policies did not
dealing in advanced automation, robotics and encourage research and development,
manufacturing intelligence. entrepreneurship and there was a dearth of
I left India in 1998 and flew to the USA to financial aid to exploit a talented person or
work for one of the top consulting companies ideas.
in the world. I wanted to join the IT India had liberalised in the early 1990s
revolution, and I was on the top of the world. but the babu mindset still lived on. In
I graduated in computer engineering from the engineering field, lots of engineers
India and MBA from Australia. On my return, migrated abroad because they cited lucrative
I joined a manufacturing firm in Faridabad. opportunities abroad, lack of similarly
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