No, I had no special inclination towards engineering. It's just that I was very clear. I didn't like the shape of the world as it looked to me. So in my limited knowledge the civil services- the IAS in particular was the place where one could bring about social change. But the only reason I went to the IITS was because we used to have a magazine called CSR, Competition Success Review. So that would contain the interviews of all the UPSC toppers mostly.
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Questioner: Did you want to become an engineer or your parents wanted you to be?
Acharya Prashant: No, I had no special inclination towards engineering. It's just that I was very clear. I didn't like the shape of the world as it looked to me. I didn't like how ignorant we all were. I saw that there was an unfinished agenda because I had been reading about the greats from all fields of science in technology, sports, politics, the fighters in the freedom struggle and all these people and I could clearly see that their work is not yet finished.
And even from firsthand experience I could see how the world around is and I was a sensitive kid. I think I still am, both a kid and sensitive. So, it hurts when you look at the world around you and you see the kind of lovelessness and treachery and all those things. So, I could see that all this needs to change. So, in my limited knowledge, we are talking of the late 80s and the early 90s, that's when I was in class 7th, 8th 9th 10th. So in my limited uh knowledge the civil services the- IAS in particular was the place where one could bring about social change.
