Newspaper Vendor to get into IIM-C; Kudos to N Shiva Kumar
If a good underdog story is what you are looking for, you are at the right place. Not just an underdog story, we would call it heroics. Heroics, which generally go unnoticed. We, hereby, plan on bringing you stories of all the heroics Indian education system has ever witnessed, starting with N Shiva Kumar, a newspaper vendor who will walk down the corridors of Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta as a PGP student.
Background:
Shiva, 23 years old engineering student from Banaswadi, is the son of a truck driver and an illiterate mother. He started working as a newspaper delivery boy and for his debt-ridden family the Rs 150 he would bring home was a huge relief. Currently studying in the eighth semester of Computer Science Engineering at Bangalore Institute of Technology, he sold flowers that his mother strung into garlands by the roadside when he was just 10 years old.
He worked as a newspaper delivery boy since he was in Class 6 and became a vendor in Class 10. After school, he would borrow a cycle and identify new buildings and residents. He would approach them for business and ensured the papers reached before 6 a.m. He had his own targets for a month, he said explaining his marketing tactics. He still delivers the paper along with four of his delivery boys. He managed to balance his studies and part-time job and cracked the IIM entrance test.
When asked of future plans, N Shiva Kumar wants to start a charity educational institution by the name of 'Educate India' through which he can help the underprivileged gain some education. He wants to work extremely hard at the IIM where he will study finance and make a mark amongst the brightest minds and CAT 2012 all India toppers especially.
In a nation where students from socially weak backgrounds have been known to be harassed in “top rated institutions”, his discretion is understandable. By the time you will read this article, N Shiva Kumar will already have become a celebrity at the national level.
Kudos to you N Shiva Kumar!!
If a good underdog story is what you are looking for, you are at the right place. Not just an underdog story, we would call it heroics. Heroics, which generally go unnoticed. We, hereby, plan on bringing you stories of all the heroics Indian education system has ever witnessed, starting with N Shiva Kumar, a newspaper vendor who will walk down the corridors of Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta as a PGP student.
Background:
Shiva, 23 years old engineering student from Banaswadi, is the son of a truck driver and an illiterate mother. He started working as a newspaper delivery boy and for his debt-ridden family the Rs 150 he would bring home was a huge relief. Currently studying in the eighth semester of Computer Science Engineering at Bangalore Institute of Technology, he sold flowers that his mother strung into garlands by the roadside when he was just 10 years old.
He worked as a newspaper delivery boy since he was in Class 6 and became a vendor in Class 10. After school, he would borrow a cycle and identify new buildings and residents. He would approach them for business and ensured the papers reached before 6 a.m. He had his own targets for a month, he said explaining his marketing tactics. He still delivers the paper along with four of his delivery boys. He managed to balance his studies and part-time job and cracked the IIM entrance test.
When asked of future plans, N Shiva Kumar wants to start a charity educational institution by the name of 'Educate India' through which he can help the underprivileged gain some education. He wants to work extremely hard at the IIM where he will study finance and make a mark amongst the brightest minds and CAT 2012 all India toppers especially.
In a nation where students from socially weak backgrounds have been known to be harassed in “top rated institutions”, his discretion is understandable. By the time you will read this article, N Shiva Kumar will already have become a celebrity at the national level.
Kudos to you N Shiva Kumar!!
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