'Next gen leaders need to get into the free market mindset'

摘要

Sandip Das comes from a very illustrious family of Odisha that includes some of the country's most well known doctors, decorated military officers, a top notch aeronautical engineer, high court chief justices, philanthropists, a Padma Bhushan, a poet, and a nuclear physicist. In that sense he has a lineage of achievers in diverse fields. And the environment that he was brought up in was very vibrant and intellectually stimulating. Though his father had a fiery temper, he was a very strict disciplinarian (he had Sandip's trouser pockets stitched because he once saw him talking to a senior uncle with his hands in his pocket) and wanted Sandip to be the perfect boy who was a good sportsman, a good student, a good singer, good writer, and a good speaker. On the other hand his mother was very calm and like the glue of the family who was loved and respected by everybody, and made sure that it was always values and integrity first. The kids were never spoilt with pocket money; and were scrubbed with the common man's Lifebouy soap rather than the genteel Lux. Money was very precious and the kids were always reminded to spend it wisely. The parents personally took care of the kids' studies. Das summarizes that the net result of this kind of upbringing was that he grew up to be a very disciplined, hard working, focused in what he was doing, and at the same time caring, aesthetically aware, and an artistic young man.