Insulted as a child in Varanasi for entering a rich friend's house because his father pulled a cycle rickshaw, Govind studied with earplugs in a noisy room next to generators and became an IAS officer after his father sold his last plot of land.
Turn childhood humiliation into quiet, relentless academic fire.
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