India, July 5 -- A Bengaluru-based Microsoft techie has shared the emotional story behind his journey to a Rs.1.9 crore salary in Seattle, recalling how his father sold his mother's jewellery to pay his college fees when the family couldn't afford even one semester's fees.

In a LinkedIn post, Manu Agarwal, a senior software engineer at Microsoft, shared his family's financial situation during his college days, saying that the situation was so strained that even a semester fee of Rs.15,000 was difficult to arrange.

"My father sold my mother's jewellery to pay my BCA fees. Rs.15,000 per semester. That's all it cost. But we didn't have it," Agarwal wrote in the LinkedIn post.

The techie recalled watching his mother quietly hand over her g...