I Grew Up in West Bengal. Nobody Told Me I Could Build Companies.
Nobody sat me down and said, you could be a founder. Not a teacher. Not a relative. Not a textbook. The conversations around me were always about marks, government jobs, and stability. Dream carefully. Dream small. Dream in ways that fit inside a system that was built long before you were born. I grew up in West Bengal , a place full of brilliant, hungry minds that the world somehow keeps overlooking. And for a long time, I absorbed what the world around me was saying without even realizing it. Then something shifted. The moment I stopped listening. I don't remember one single dramatic moment. It wasn't a TED talk or a motivational quote. It was more like a slow, quiet rebellion that built up inside me over years of reading, questioning, and refusing to accept that the ceiling above me was real. I started reading about builders. Not just businessmen , actual civilization builders. People who looked at broken systems and said I'll fix that. People who had nothing but a visio...