As soon as he retired from DMRC, top-notch corporations in India approached Sreedharan with offers that would lure just about anyone. A major enterprise sweetened the pot, asking him to name any position and offered a remuneration no less than Rs 20 lakh a month. None of these offers could bridge the distance Sreedharan kept from for-profit institutions throughout his life. Nothing could lure him to reassess his determination to live the rest of his life on his pension from the Indian Railways. Even in the years leading up to his retirement from full-time work, he would not take a rupee from
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