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P. Rajababu 
Many success stories have emerged from gutters. They, however, had support of invisible structures like family, friends, well-wishers, caste and community. The success of P. Rajababu had no such props. Swathi.V strikes a chord with the Dalit-orphan boy who grew up to be the Deputy General Manager (Finance and Accounts), Food Corporation of India, Hyderabad Region. Born in a Dalit family of Polamuru in West Godavari district, Rajababu lost father even before his birth. Deserted by his mother soon after, he was practically abandoned by the rest of the family. His grand parents moved from one place to the other in search of work leaving the little one alone in the village. After some time, they washed their hands off the responsibility by joining him in a social welfare hostel. Hostel blues “Life at the hostel was predictably tough. It got tougher when the hostel closed for holidays,” Rajababu recollects. While everybody looked forward to going home during vacation, Rajababu dreaded the prospect as he had nowhere to go. Things improved as he grew up and he would accompany friends to work as an agricultural labourer during vacation. Wages for fees“I saved the wages for paying college fee. Despite hardships, the urge to study was strong in me. There were times when I went without food or lived on just an idli per day,” he says. Nevertheless, he stayed at social welfare hostels throughout his studies. He went on to study B.Com. at D.N.R. College of Bheemavaram, and later M.B.A. from C.R.R. College at Eluru. To pay college fee, he took tuitions even to B.A. students. “I studied the subjects of B.A. before I taught. That helped me later on in attempting Groups,” he recollects. Lady Luck smiled soon after. RecruitmentHe got through FCI recruitment and had first posting as Deputy Manager at Shillong. During his over ten years of service, he worked at Bangalore, Kolkata and now at Hyderabad. He emerged without a scratch even from West Bengal notorious for its trade unionism. Rajababu says his caste was not as much a problem to him as his orphanhood. Now married and father of two kids, he sounds positive about life. Being a Dalit “Instances of being an outcast were there. But there was a flip side too. I slept in the ‘Pooja room’s of the most traditional households of my friends. My examination fee would be paid by our Telugu teacher who was a Brahmin,” he says and adds that caste should be considered as a traditional yoke rather than as individual sin.
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