Bengaluru, July 7 -- A touching story of sacrifice, perseverance and success shared by a software engineer working at Microsoft has gone viral on social media, with thousands of users praising his parents for standing by him during difficult times.

Manu Agrawal, a Bengaluru-based engineer employed with Microsoft's Seattle office, shared a detailed post on LinkedIn recalling how his family struggled to pay his college fees. He said there was a time when arranging Rs.15,000 for a semester fee seemed impossible, forcing his parents to sell his mother's gold bangles.

In the post, Agrawal wrote that he still remembers the day his mother silently handed over her bangles without hesitation. "She did not cry. She simply looked at me and gave aw...