From Karur to Dubai: The Story Nobody Tells You About Chasing Big Dreams
By Roshan R Sivakumar · roshanrsivakumar.com There's a town in Tamil Nadu called Karur. If you've never heard of it, that's kind of the point. It's not Chennai. It's not Coimbatore. It's not the kind of place people expect big things to come from. And yet, that's exactly where this story starts — with a kid who had a vague idea about engineering, absolutely zero knowledge of what "analytics" meant, and one word stuck somewhere in the back of his head: Dubai. Chapter One: The Engineer Who Didn't Know He Was an Analyst I picked Mechanical Engineering the way a lot of Tamil Nadu students do — it made sense, it felt stable, and I was good at it. At M. Kumarasamy College of Engineering in Karur, I got serious about the craft. SolidWorks. Fusion 360. Additive manufacturing. I learned how things work — how metal bends, how a production line moves, how waste sneaks into a process without anyone noticing. Then I did something that quietly c...