Look back at a middle-class Indian home in the late 1990s or early 2000s, and you will find a singular dream tucked into the family’s ambitions: an engineering degree. It was seen as a passport to dreams and upward mobility. The aisles of the Kota factories mushroomed with engineering aspirations and students holding fond hopes of IIT. Either you were an engineer, or you were a loser. Yes, it was called the engineering obsession. But what we see today is a fractured, crumbled utopia. That unshakable surface is cracking. We have all known the infamous engineers who have turned to comedians, journalists or marketeers. The reasons? Well, there are many. The assembly line of India’s engineering graduates are grappling for meager positions in the industry. Shrinking core opportunities are

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