New Delhi, April 18 -- An Indian techie's success story is making the rounds on social media. The user, who goes by the name Amit Dutta on Instagram, exemplified how he failed to crack India's premier institutions, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), but still managed to secure a lucrative job in London after overcoming several struggles. "In 2018, I failed to crack IIT. I watched my classmates post their IIT acceptances while I sat in a campus that most people had never heard of," he wrote in the caption.

Reflecting on that time, he added, "But I made a decision that changed everything. I stopped mourning the college I didn't get and started becoming the engineer no college could take credit for."

Dutta shared that he faced anot...