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About
the author of Raising Yourself: Making the Right Choices Born in India, Sumant S. Pendharkar has lived in the United States since 1985. As a hiring manager, he noticed that many of the choices his associates had made as teenagers were catching up with them. They had very little savings; were often caught in a cycle of debt; they attended night classes to fill in educational gaps; and were, basically, making up for lost opportunities—all because of the poor decisions they had made during their teen years. Sumant
noticed that teenagers in the US often ignore the wealth of opportunities
available to them (education, libraries, computers, institutions of higher
learning, etc.). In fact, in most cases, they don’t realize the advantages
they have until after they have made poor choices in their critical teen
years—choices such as dropping out of school, getting involved with drugs and
gangs, bowing to the peer pressure, getting pregnant or starting a family too
young. Wishing
to give back to the country he now calls home, Sumant, an accomplished author,
decided to write this simple book. Sumant
hopes readers will think about how they are approaching their lives, and what
decisions they need to make, as they take on the challenging task of “raising
themselves” in a complex world where clear choices are not always easy. Sumant has also co-authored eight technical books, which have been published by Prentice Hall, McGraw-Hill and Random House. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife.
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