I watched my cousin get disowned in every conversation at family functions for choosing fine arts over engineering, like he'd failed at life. That pressure breaks people, and it's time we stopped treating two degrees as the only path to being a 'good' Indian kid.
India's fastest-growing job categories over the last five years โ content, design, data analytics, skilled trades, entrepreneurship โ sit almost entirely outside engineering and medicine, yet those two fields still absorb a wildly disproportionate share of student ambition.