Click to play videoBangalore: A Rs 1-crore pay package and the chance to work for a top US investment bank—a job offer like this would sound like sweet music to MBA graduates. Not to Manasi Prasad though.
Prasad, a graduate of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, turned down a job from Goldman Sachs for her dream project: setting up an arts school.
With the qualifications she boasts of, she could easily be rubbing shoulders with corporate bigwigs and making cartloads of money. But she chose another life.
Prasad, 27, an expert in Carnatic music, didn’t want to dance to the beats of a job—she would rather stay on in India and work towards her dream.
"I see myself running an institution. I have had the privilege to be a part of this wonderful institution, IIM Bangalore. The way IIM has set a benchmark for management education we need similar institutions for classical arts in India. People who graduate in music and dance should not be worried about how they are going to earn a livelihood," says Prasad.
But if that was the aim anyway why undergo the rigorous training offered by IIM? "I really believe my arts and management will come together some day and I hope to bring some of the insights that I have learnt from my management education into the way classical arts are run in this country,” says Prasad.
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