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A prerequisite for the acceptance of different professions, though, is a change in our attitude..
Parents want children to become doctors, engineers or bureaucrats due to the automatic 'respect' and awe these careers ensure..
At another level, swaggering gangsters dispensing ersatz 'justice' in their areas also draw admiring wannabes for the same reason..
Careers as, say, school teachers, chefs, graphic artists or cabin crew do not ellicit that same 'respect' in India yet...
Hailing from the tribal areas of Odisha and Jharkhand and now studying in a convent school in southern India, the little girl's goal is a job as cabin crew in India's burgeoning..
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