In a mid-tier engineering college on the outskirts of a small Indian district, five final-year students form a fragile coalition: Amit, the pragmatic son of a landless farmer; Nisha, a sharp first-generation student with a chronically ill mother; Sajid, a resourceful young man navigating communal suspicion; Deepa, a brilliant coder who carries the weight of caste bias; and Rajan, the optimist from an artisan family. Their final-year project promises a bridge to internships and jobs, but the road to completion is littered with unpaid work, indifferent placement officers, biased recruiters, and urgent family crises.
The Last Mile Project follows their efforts to design a pragmatic engineering prototype, leverage local networks, and survive placement season. As personal tragedies and moral choices accumulate, the five discover the limits of individual grit and the power of collective improvisation. This is a novel about systems and agency, small technical victories, and the human stakes of the push to the finish line.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In a mid-tier engineering college on the outskirts of a small Indian district, five final-year students form a fragile coalition: Amit, the pragmatic son of a landless farmer; Nisha, a sharp first-generation student with a chronically ill mother; Sajid, a resourceful young man navigating communal suspicion; Deepa, a brilliant coder who carries the weight of caste bias; and Rajan, the optimist from an artisan family. Their final-year project promises a bridge to internships and jobs, but the road to completion is littered with unpaid work, indifferent placement officers, biased recruiters, and urgent family crises.The Last Mile Project follows their efforts to design a pragmatic engineering prototype, leverage local networks, and survive placement season. As personal tragedies and moral choices accumulate, the five discover the limits of individual grit and the power of collective improvisation. This is a novel about systems and agency, small technical victories, and the human stakes of the push to the finish line. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9798269549026
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In a mid-tier engineering college on the outskirts of a small Indian district, five final-year students form a fragile coalition: Amit, the pragmatic son of a landless farmer; Nisha, a sharp first-generation student with a chronically ill mother; Sajid, a resourceful young man navigating communal suspicion; Deepa, a brilliant coder who carries the weight of caste bias; and Rajan, the optimist from an artisan family. Their final-year project promises a bridge to internships and jobs, but the road to completion is littered with unpaid work, indifferent placement officers, biased recruiters, and urgent family crises.The Last Mile Project follows their efforts to design a pragmatic engineering prototype, leverage local networks, and survive placement season. As personal tragedies and moral choices accumulate, the five discover the limits of individual grit and the power of collective improvisation. This is a novel about systems and agency, small technical victories, and the human stakes of the push to the finish line. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9798269549026
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