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Pearl City finds its way home
Financial Express Mumbai
|December 24, 2025
FOR SEVEN YEARS, every Diwali and Pongal followed the same weary script for Arjun Selvam: a 700-km journey, nearly 16 hours on the road, and the familiar ache of departure for automotive jobs-first in Chennai, later in Andhra Pradesh.
Each visit ended the same leaving way: behind.
Tuticorin This year, there is no return ticket. The 28-yearold is now a quality engineer at VinFast's $2-billion electric vehicle manufacturing facility in Thoothukudi.
Where he once ₹15,000 a earned month-just enough to cover rent, send money home and save for the occasional bus ride-Selvam now takes home about 50,000. He has started rebuilding a life he once put on hold as for the first time, work and home exist in the same place.
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