Summary:
Last October, Ranjith applied for the post of assistant professor at IIM-Ranchi.
By December, Bengaluru-based Christ University offered him a job at the Department of Economics.
“The first thing I did was apply for a loan to build a home for my parents and siblings,” he said.
Before the loan was sanctioned, however, he got the appointment letter from IIM.
“A lot of dreams have wilted before they could bloom in thousands of huts like mine.
They should be replaced by stories of realising those dreams,” he said.
“I was born in this house.
I grew up in this house.
I live in this house.
With lots of happiness, let me tell you an assistant professor of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) took birth here.
I want to share my journey from this house to IIM-Ranchi.
And I will consider it my success if this fuels at least one person’s dreams.”
Ranjith Ramachandran, 28, who has a doctorate in Economics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, took over the Malayalam internet space a day ago after posting his incredible life journey on Facebook.
What especially tore at netizens’ heartstrings was the photograph of Ranjith’s house of 23 years -- an unplastered doorless two-room shed and a leaky tiled roof wrapped with black tarpaulin.