The Doctor Who Became the Inverter Man — Magazine Feature on Kunwer Sachdev

The magazine feature titled “The doctor who became the inverter man” — a print profile of Kunwer Sachdev, the boy who was meant to become a doctor and became the Inverter Man of India instead.

A magazine feature published under the headline “The doctor who became the inverter man” profiles Kunwer Sachdev, founder of Su-Kam — the boy who was expected, by family and school, to become a doctor, and became the Inverter Man of India instead. This is one of the piece that captured the alternate-path arc Sachdev himself keeps returning to across his press appearances.

The doctor that never was

The framing captures a specific fact of Sachdev biography that he has retold across YourStory, SiliconIndia and BW Businessworld: he narrowly missed the marks required for medical school, and instead of going into engineering — the other prestige route for a middle-class Punjabi household in 1980s Delhi — he ended up doing statistical honours at Hindu College while helping his older brother sell pens.

The inverter man he became

What the feature captures is the substitution: the doctor path closed, and roughly two decades later Sachdev had built India largest branded inverter company, filed more than a hundred patents in power-electronics, and been given the informal title — “the Inverter Man of India” — that this magazine writer plays on.