This is the story of a young man who steps out of the precincts of IIT Kanpur in 1973 with a dream in his heart - to become an entrepreneur and contribute to nation-building. With no expertise and no means of capital in pre-Liberalization India, he takes the long and winding road with grit and persistence, and gains overseas education on scholarship, and dons multiple hats for eighteen long years before embarking on his mission. A mission that makes the company he set up to pioneer and excel outsourced engineering services from India and create the brand 'engineered in India'. The book allows readers to understand what to expect from an entrepreneurial journey, and will enable them to see the human truths and tools they can use to make sense of their entrepreneurial experiments.