Preeti rao biography of mahatma

I grew up in Bombay in the suburb of Bandra. My father was a journalist while my mother was a medical practitioner. My parents, younger brother and I lived together with uncles and aunts, speaking multiple languages, given that my parents hailed from Karnataka and Gujarat respectively. In those days, if you were bright, you picked science and chose either medicine or engineering.

My mother happened to be a doctor, in fact, everyone on her side of the family was in the medical profession. So that was the natural path for me. As it happened, I did appear for medical college entrance and did not make it. I was disappointed but also relieved.

The life of Mahatma

I ended up sitting for that exam without much preparation. My rank was highest amongst girls in the zone. I chose IIT Bombay and electrical engineering without a clue about what lay ahead. It was really a series of accidents that brought me to IIT rather than any strategy or plan! There were very few girls so you always tended to stand out, whether it was within class or outside of it.

You had to deal with all kinds of isolation and the difficulties of not having a group to help you along. I remained shy and aloof throughout. I did enjoy discovering of the different areas of electrical engineering and even the courses in the humanities. Somewhere along the way, I developed an interest in signal processing.