At the end of her first day at her first job at a prestigious design firm in Mumbai, 20-year-old Miti Desai came home and wept for five hours straight. Questioned by her concerned parents, the explanation that instinctively rose to her lips was this: "Every aspect of what happens there ultimately comes down to a financial transaction. I can't live my life that way." Twelve days later she quit. A few months later she flew to Atlanta, Georgia, a freshly enrolled graduate student of the Portfolio Center. A week after classes began she turned up at the dean's office with an announcement: "I think I need to leave the school." Why? "Everything were being asked to create here is commercial." Read on to learn how this disenchanted design student went on to become a renowned classical Indian dancer -- who now designs from the inside out.
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