When Simran Grover got a job with US-based offshore oilfield company J Ray McDermott at its Dubai operations, he was more than ecstatic. A six-digit salary was enough to keep this IIT-Delhi graduate happy. But after just two years, Grover was craving something different. The glitz of Dubai and the fat paycheque no longer held his interest. In 2010, he was back in India, learning, exploring and working in villages.

“What you do here (in villages) gives you first-hand access to knowledge. I am more at peace working in rural areas,” says Grover, now the technology officer at Boond, a social enterprise providing solar energy products and solutions in rural India. His salary is one-tenth what it was at McDermott, but his happiness is many times over. He is in no hurry to leave Udaipur, in south Rajasthan, where he is content lighting up village homes...........Read More

Source: The Business Line