The Economic Times

His family wanted him to become an engineer: Anand Mahindra is impressed with a VIT techie who refused to join corporate rat race to become a famous tabla player

Anand Mahindra's Monday Motivation is Nikhil Paralikar, a Vellore Institute of Technology graduate who chose a career in tabla over a corporate job. From drumming on boxes as a child to performing thousands of times, Paralikar has built a musical career blending Indian classical traditions with techno, EDM and folk music.