NEW DELHI: For Anjishnu Bose, the Vaishali (Ghaziabad) lad who’s likely ranked the highest in JEE Advanced in Delhi, getting into an IIT is not even the first option. He wants to take his prodigious brain—he’s also won the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana scholarship for basic science students that’ll see him through to research—and an all-India rank of 26 to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
“I want to do BSc Physics,” say Bose. “IISc is first option. If that doesn’t work, I’d prefer to join the general Physics programme at IIT Kanpur or Kharagpur.” But he may not even need a plan B. He has already been called for counselling for the KVPY quota at IISc which will be held on July 1. JEE Advanced is itself Plan B.
No corporate or coding job with a fat paycheck for him either—Bose will be a full-fledged scientist. “After my BSc, I’ll pursue a master’s and then research.” He attended coaching on school days and put in “nine-10 hours” of self study on days off. The student of SR DAV School Dayanand Vihar, scored a 97.4% in his CBSE board exams. But Bose is far from being a dull all-work-no-play kid. He plays video games in his free time, reads science fiction voraciously and plays the keyboard. “I have a Trinity Grade V certificate in keyboards,” he says and is partial to Beethoven and Mozart. And he still finds time to practise Buddhist chanting every day. “It is a form of meditation. I am also fascinated by the Gita.” Bose’s elder sister and father Tapas Bose, a PSU employee, are both engineers; mother Jhuma Bose tutors kids at home.
Suyash Agarwal (AIR 69) moved from Satna—where the all-India topper is based—to Delhi to attend coaching here. His school is in Haryana and he’d travel to Delhi to attend weekend classes. “I’d travel about 100km in a day on weekends,” Agarwal says.
“I want to do BSc Physics,” say Bose. “IISc is first option. If that doesn’t work, I’d prefer to join the general Physics programme at IIT Kanpur or Kharagpur.” But he may not even need a plan B. He has already been called for counselling for the KVPY quota at IISc which will be held on July 1. JEE Advanced is itself Plan B.
No corporate or coding job with a fat paycheck for him either—Bose will be a full-fledged scientist. “After my BSc, I’ll pursue a master’s and then research.” He attended coaching on school days and put in “nine-10 hours” of self study on days off. The student of SR DAV School Dayanand Vihar, scored a 97.4% in his CBSE board exams. But Bose is far from being a dull all-work-no-play kid. He plays video games in his free time, reads science fiction voraciously and plays the keyboard. “I have a Trinity Grade V certificate in keyboards,” he says and is partial to Beethoven and Mozart. And he still finds time to practise Buddhist chanting every day. “It is a form of meditation. I am also fascinated by the Gita.” Bose’s elder sister and father Tapas Bose, a PSU employee, are both engineers; mother Jhuma Bose tutors kids at home.
Suyash Agarwal (AIR 69) moved from Satna—where the all-India topper is based—to Delhi to attend coaching here. His school is in Haryana and he’d travel to Delhi to attend weekend classes. “I’d travel about 100km in a day on weekends,” Agarwal says.
