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"Anand Kumar" from Bihar. Hats off to him
In INDIA, the media only features all the negatives - be it the
politicians, the film stars or the sports people. The True - real -
aam admi like Anand Kumar apparently have no place.
Such people are recognised by the foreign nations like US and Japan,
but like prophets they remain unheralded in our own Bharat.
We the people should change this by sending such good news through
the internet, where the main line media have no hold at all.
Let us celebrate the success of people like Anand Kumar
IT IS A PITY THAT NONE OF THE 'BREAKING NEWS'
CHANNELS, WHO HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING/AIRING
NON STOP THE SO CALLED RETURN OF YUVRAJ SINGH
TO THE 20-20 TEAM AS AN EARTH SHAKING, MOST
IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE COUNTRY, HAVE ANY
KNOWLEDGE OR AIR TIME FOR SUCH SELFLESS
PERSONS AS ANAND KUMAR. JAI HIND.
He developed an indomitable affection and love towards
mathematics and possesses exceptional mathematical abilities.
His role model is great Indian mathematician "Ramanujan".
During graduation, He submitted papers on Number Theory,
which were published in Mathematical Spectrum and The
Mathematical Gazette. He worked hard and dreamed of getting
into one of the world's best university "Cambridge". And one day
he got it, admission to Cambridge.
But very soon he realized that his father cannot afford his
education at Cambridge. He and his father searched helplessly
for a sponsor all over India but nobody came up. And one day his
family's only breadwinner: his father died and his last hope of
getting good education diminished. He gave up the dream of
Cambridge and came back to his home in Patna, Bihar.
He would work on Mathematics during day time and would sell
papads in evenings with his mother, who had started a small
business from home, to support her family. He also tutored
students in math to earn extra money. Since Patna University
library did not have foreign journals, for his own study, he would
travel every weekend on a six-hour train journey to Varanasi,
where his younger brother, learning violin under N. Rajam, had
a hostel room. Thus he would spend Saturday and Sunday at
the Central Library, BHU and return to Patna on Monday morning.
He rented a classroom for Rs 500 a month, and began his own
institute, the Ramanujam School of Mathematics (RSM). Within
the space of year, his class grew from two students to thirty-six,
and after three years there were almost 500 students enrolled.
Then in early 2000, when a poor student came to him seeking
coaching for IIT-JEE, who couldn't afford the annual admission
fee due to poverty, Kumar was motivated to start the Super
30 program in 2003, for which he is now well-known.
Every year in August, since 2003, the Ramanujan School of
Mathematics, now a trust, holds a competitive test to select
30 students for the "Super 30" scheme. About 4,000 to 5,000
students appear at the test, and eventually he takes thirty
intelligent students from economically backward sections
which included beggars, hawkers, auto-drive's children, tutors
them, and provides study materials and lodging for a year.
He prepares them for the Joint Entrance Examination for the
Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). His mother, Jayanti Devi,
cooks for the students, and his brother Pranav Kumar takes
Out of 270 students he tutored from 2002-2011 236 students
have made an admission to IIT. All of them came so poor
background that their parents were Hawkers, Auto-drivers,
During 2003-2009, 182 students out of 210 have made it to
In 2010, all the students of Super 30 cleared IIT JEE entrance
making it a three in a row for the institution.
Anand Kumar has no financial support for Super 30 from any
government as well as private agencies, and manages on the tuition
fee he earns from the Ramanujam Institute. After the success
of Super 30 and its growing popularity, he got many offers from
the private both national and international companies as well
as as the government for financial help, but he always refused it.
He wanted to sustain Super 30 through his own efforts. After
three consecutive 30/30 results in 2008-2010, in 2011, 24 of
the 30 students cleared IIT JEE.
Anand's work is now well received from all over the world :
USA's president Obama read about Anand in TIME magazine
and sent a special envoy to check the work done by him and
offered all the assistance and Anand never accepts help
Discovery Channel broadcast a one-hour-long program on
Super 30, and half a page has been devoted to Kumar in
Actress and ex-Miss Japan Norika Fujiwara visited Patna to
make a documentary on Anand's initiatives.
Kumar has been featured in programs by the BBC.
He has spoken about his experiences at Indian Institute of
Kumar is in the Limca Book of Records (2009) for his
contribution in helping poor students crack IIT-JEE by providing
Time Magazine has selected mathematician Anand Kumar's
school Super 30 in the list of Best of of Asia 2010.
Anand Kumar was awarded the S. Ramanujan Award for 2010 by
the Institute for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences
Super 30 received praise from United States President
Barack Obama's special envoy Rashad Hussain, who termed it the
"best"institute in the country.Newsweek Magazine has taken note
of the initiative of mathematician Anand Kumar's Super 30 and
included his school in the list of four most innovative schools
Anand Kumar has been awarded by top award of Bihar
government "Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Shiksha Puraskar"
He was awarded the Prof Yashwantrao Kelkar Yuva Puraskar
2010 by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in
In April 2011, Anand Kumar was selected by Europe's
Focus as "One of the global personalities who have the
ability to shape exceptionally talented people."
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