‘I WANT TO LEAVE RANCHI’
I’ ve lived here all my life. The streets are full of engineers, some quite successful, some not so much. They’re all looked at with respect and I want to be one of them.
Everyone knows it’s a struggle. I attend DAV Public School Bariatu from 7 am to 1 pm. After that I have mathematics coaching with a school teacher. Then physics with another coach. This is cheaper than enrolling in a big-name coaching centre. I have an easier schedule than my classmates who are in the 5-year-package.
I think I’d make a good engineer. I’ve been making simple machines since I was in Class 5 and my prototypes of simple robots have won local awards. I want to pursue robotics as a career, but it’s not something you can do in Ranchi, so getting into an IIT is the only way to get out.
I played football but I’ve stopped. I want to go to a gym and build a body like John Abraham’s, but there’s no time.
If I don’t clear the JEE-Main in the first attempt, I’ll have to join an expensive coaching class. For now, I watch video lectures by professors from coaching centres in Kota.
My father is an LIC agent, my mother is a homemaker. Neither understands what I want to do. My mum has never heard of robotics and worries that it will be difficult for me to find a wife. Since I am the only child, they want me to marry a girl from a good family.
I guess I’ll have to look for one in Delhi when I go to work there as an engineer.