Congrats Anshuman and all the best. Though it is the best for you, yet our system has failed to spot you early. You could have definitely gone to our elite college/uni and served India.
RE:Rediff should sponser his flight tickets
by Dipak Bose on May 19, 2008 02:51 PM Permalink
The Finance Minister of WB who is a PhD from MIT already granted Rs.2 Lakhs for his airfare etc.
A school dropout from a poor village, Rammar Pillai, was an Indian hero who turned out to be a fraud. Throughout the summer some of India's top scientists and government officials believed that Pillai had made the most revolutionary discovery of the century. Using a few secret plants he could turn water into petrol. It all started on a class picnic back in 1978 in the rain forests. %u201CWhen I lit up a stove, a spark fell on a small plant and the green leaves started to burn,%u201D he told a newspaper. %u201CMy first idea was to put out the fire, but later I realized that I had found something amazing.%u201D Pillai dropped out of school and spent the next ten years searching the forest, setting fire to hundreds of different plants until, at last, he found the one from his class picnic. He set up a simple laboratory in his home and over the following years his plant fuel, which sold for 20 rupees a litre, powered all of the village machinery. Outside of his village, nobody took Pillai seriously. But in July he was given a chance to prove his plant petrol was the real thing at the Department of Science and Technology in New Delhi, India's capital. After seeing Pillai's experiment, the department head said, %u201CIf this is true, we are sitting on a gold mine.%u201D India's fuel expenses add up to 20 percent of its total imports and Pillai's discovery raised hopes that India could free itself from debt to the oil-producing nations of the Gulf. But during a second experimen
Hearty Congratulations.. For people like us who are in the "post-masters" phase, you give us a big complex. Wish we had studied just as hard to get into MIT. Nevertheless, this is by no means a small feat. Congratulations again!!! It only remains to say you will be dazzling MIT soon just as you dazzled us with this news. :D
Remember that guy from Bihar who got admitted to NASA. Fooled the whole nation. I don't believe that he had no idea that MIT is the best in the world, and he seleted MIT by sheer luck, infact all the colleges he selected tops the list. Lies all round. Still congrats for your so-called achievement. Hope India will get it correct this time.
RE:Remember That Bihar Guy at NASA
by JNB on May 13, 2008 03:11 PM Permalink
Why r u so suspicious about him? He was among the top 10 of Madhyamik exam. And u know the standard of WB Madhyamik exam. So he has already proven his class.
RE:Remember That Bihar Guy at NASA
by Sam on May 13, 2008 03:12 PM Permalink
Dear Mr. Sen,
Why do you need to be so sarcastic in your post? The young guy has achieved something most (including myself) would give the right hand for. Please appreciate his achievement.
I suppose we as a nation always expect Rammar Pillais to crop up and cannot accept people doing better than ourselves.
RE:RE:Remember That Bihar Guy at NASA
by somnath mahapatra on May 14, 2008 10:08 AM Permalink
you are right Sam. It is our habit to downplay others achievements
RE:Remember That Bihar Guy at NASA
by somnath mahapatra on May 14, 2008 10:07 AM Permalink
He got admission not by luck but by determination and study. It seems there was some mis communication during interview. It is true that he had no idea about those institutes. He got some info about MIT in news paper then he tried to get info and found that he need to appear for SAT. In the mean time he got some info about top colleges from his contacts and from internet and then applied.
RE:Remember That Bihar Guy at NASA
by Dipak Bose on May 19, 2008 02:50 PM Permalink
MIT is well known in West Bengal because the Finance Minister of WB is a PhD from MIT. I am sure Ansuman's school teacher guided him to know the names of the Universities in USA. This is a great achievement. Congratulations.
RE:Remember That Bihar Guy at NASA
by venkata cha laiah on May 13, 2008 06:19 PM Permalink
one small error it was not guy from bhihar, it was guy from UP who got admitted to NASA. He fooled entire journalist group in UP.
Anshuman's success is exceptional and wish to carry it forward uncorrupted to his dream of becoming a theoretical physicist. By the way, I have a very humble suggestion. Don't accept any of sponsors or sponsorships. That will be a burden for you in future. Instead, try to get some government fundig or better to try a bank loan. Identify some good bank mangagers and convince them about this. You can repay it after few years of your study-cum-job in the US.
RE:Congratulations!
by JKP on May 13, 2008 05:09 PM Permalink
Education loans are dealt with in a different way compared to other loans. I am sure he will get education loan without guarantee. Why should a bank ask for guarntee? Then what is the difference between an education loan and a loan for real estate business? Hope some banking people on this forum may clarify.
