The Economic TimesBy Kala Vijayaraghavan & Rica Bhattacharyya. It was a wave of sorts and SP Kothari was part of it. The year was 1982, and Kothari, armed with a degree in chemical engineering from BITS Pilani and a management degree from IIM-Ahmedabad, felt the west calling.
He did what many other bright and brilliant Indians were doing at the time for such a passage. "In the 70s, 80s and much of the 90s, the only way to emigrate to the US was higher education," he says. "Many of these students, without even knowing a whole lot about academic careers, joined PhD programmes in the US—these programmes paid full scholarship." Read more...