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So, he kept his wife and children in a place where the schooling was good and chose to travel alone to wherever work took him. In order to be able to financially afford two establishments, he would not rent a house in the place of his posting.
Instead, after a day's work when the village post office (usually a mud hut) closed, he simply slept there. Every bit helped to save up and finally Jani graduated with a Masters from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, and joined Wipro as an R&D engineer.

When Jani came on board, his moving out of Wipro caused serious and understandable concern in the minds of Wipro’s top management. As we grew, contrary to fear from some quarters, we did not turn out to become a "Wipro Shop". Our desire was to build something ground upward, something that would be a rain forest of talents from the best organizations.

Joseph, Prasad, Amit & Erik

We started with T. G. C. Prasad and Amit Agrawal and Erik Mann and Joseph King. Prasad was with PricewaterhouseCoopers, providing IT consultancy and implementing SAP for clients. He is a civil engineer with a post-graduate degree in Human Resource Management from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, where he was a gold medallist. Prasad had begun his career in HR, after which he had moved to sales and had gone on to Singapore before switching to IT consultancy.

My eye had been on him for a long time and after a quick round of discussion, we settled the case for him to set up our People Function. We needed an unusual individual who could bring in both the consulting view and hands-on experience to the job, and Prasad fit the bill perfectly.

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Subroto Bagchi is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer for MindTree Consulting (P) Ltd. The "Making of the MindTree" is told in the first person by Subroto Bagchi. In condensed form, it was published by Business World, filmed by InfiniTV, and aired on CNBC, IT Hour. Websites: www.mindtree.com & www.mindtree.com/subrotobagchi