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What if he turned out to be another Dharun Ravi?
by MulaiAzhagi Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:40 pm
According to his mother, Naveen (born January 27, 1982) was an affectionate, quiet and shy boy. He didn’t like to play with other kids too much, he never watched television and he was avoiding toys.
It was clear from beginning that computers were his natural instruments. His mother said that his life changed when he got his first computer in the sixth grade. In high school he won Texas Instruments contest with science project on artificial intelligence.
India is full of young people with exquisite intelligence prone to natural science, mathematics and computers, but this is still an undeveloped country and these guys have so few opportunities to fully develop their potential. I wonder how his life would look like if his family didn’t decide to move to United States when he was 8. The most likely scenario is that he would be employed as software engineer, respected because of his skills, but working under foreign boss that imposes his own business strategies. Even if he started his own company there is very few angel investors that can fund great ideas. Can a young man of his caliber fully develop his potential in this kind of environment? Possibly, but improbable.
However, they moved to United States in Torrington, Connecticut. His growing up was hard. They moved from a really hot environment to one that had snow. It was a different culture, a different language and it was hard to make friends. His best and closest friend was his younger sister Chinduri. Naveen was the mentor to Chinduri, after his success he was inspiration to her and she looked up to him for everything. He even told her if she surpasses him in school, he would give her a million dollars (of course that was after he already earned few).
He graduated from King’s College London and Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he got his both bachelor and master’s degree in four years.
http://whoandwhom.com/naveen-selvadurai/
====> Just because your parents moved to U.K or USA, it does not mean that you would end up as a high achiever. There are plenty of losers among second generation Indian Americans.
It was clear from beginning that computers were his natural instruments. His mother said that his life changed when he got his first computer in the sixth grade. In high school he won Texas Instruments contest with science project on artificial intelligence.
India is full of young people with exquisite intelligence prone to natural science, mathematics and computers, but this is still an undeveloped country and these guys have so few opportunities to fully develop their potential. I wonder how his life would look like if his family didn’t decide to move to United States when he was 8. The most likely scenario is that he would be employed as software engineer, respected because of his skills, but working under foreign boss that imposes his own business strategies. Even if he started his own company there is very few angel investors that can fund great ideas. Can a young man of his caliber fully develop his potential in this kind of environment? Possibly, but improbable.
However, they moved to United States in Torrington, Connecticut. His growing up was hard. They moved from a really hot environment to one that had snow. It was a different culture, a different language and it was hard to make friends. His best and closest friend was his younger sister Chinduri. Naveen was the mentor to Chinduri, after his success he was inspiration to her and she looked up to him for everything. He even told her if she surpasses him in school, he would give her a million dollars (of course that was after he already earned few).
He graduated from King’s College London and Worcester Polytechnic Institute where he got his both bachelor and master’s degree in four years.
http://whoandwhom.com/naveen-selvadurai/
====> Just because your parents moved to U.K or USA, it does not mean that you would end up as a high achiever. There are plenty of losers among second generation Indian Americans.
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