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Growing up in Lucknow as the only child of a single parent, Gaurav Singh was faced with only two serious career choices — an engineer or a doctor. At 10 or 11, he was considered bright and promising. His mother —whom he affectionately calls Jhansi Ki Rani — was often told that her son had the potential to simply walk into an IIT after school.
But as Gaurav approached his teenage years, he realised that he did not want to go to IIT just because he could. The prospect of material success did not excite him. As the years went
