Amit Ranjan Sahu in Anubhuti

When Amit Ranjan Sahu arrived in Bengaluru in 2007, the move marked the beginning of what many would call a settled life. The engineer from Sambalpur, Odisha, had been placed in a multinational IT firm, where he continued working for the next four years, until he found an opening in another reputed company. With a better salary and perks came a bigger stamp of social approval. He even took the next logical step and did what most engineers do — sign up for an MBA preparation course. But something was amiss.