Amit Agarwal is a common name in India, Labnol is not. But in the last 11 years, this equation has changed considerably. Labnol.org is a technology blog started in 2004 by Amit Agarwal, India’s first professional blogger. A techie at heart and a writer by virtue of his profession, Amit has a lot more to offer. In this week’s Techie Tuesday, Amit speaks with YourStory, sharing his journey so far, his success story and the decisions which have brought him where he is today.Belonging to a business family, Amit had an inclination towards joining the family business after growing up. Though he was a studious child topping his class, he was never interested in computers or engineering. Mathematics was Amit’s favorite subject and that helped him decide to choose engineering after his school. He was also looking for flexibility to do a lot of things and hence medicine was ruled out. Like a typical joint family, the women in his family wanted him to stay back in Agra while the men encouraged him to do whatever interested him the most. He decided to choose engineering because it would give him more flexibility in the future unlike medicine. Even at IIT-Roorkee(then REC), he opted for Computer Science engineering because that’s what students with good ranks were opting for.
