Inside, 15-year-old Harshita Arora was glued to her laptop. She had stopped going to school. She had refused to attend family functions, go on trips, and even turned down visits to her grandparents. Years later, what she created inside her room, spending hours and hours behind a screen, would lead her to Silicon Valley. Harshita, now 24, is among the youngest General Partners at Y Combinator, the storied startup accelerator that has backed some of the world’s most influential technology companies. Indians making it big in tech — like Sundar Pichai of Google or Satya Nadella of Microsoft — are numerous, going on to become household tales for aspiring parents dreaming the American dream for their children. Harshita’s journey, though, didn’t follow any of the familiar routes — school, college degrees, predictable milestones. This is her unique story. A life-altering decision Harshita was born to Ravinder Singh Arora, who works in property investment, and Jasvinder Kaur Arora, a homemaker, in 2002.…