Aspires to Earn Rs 10L PM
. Tea Vendor's Son Aspires to Earn Rs 10L PM PATNA: From his crumbling hut in a village in Bihar's Madhubani district to the sprawling campus of IIT-Mandi, the journey of Abhimanyu Kumar has been awe-inspiring. Abhimanyu cracked IIT-JEE in 2009 though he had no idea about either the IITs or JEE till 2006 when he came to stay with his father, a tea vendor in the state capital. "I came to Patna for higher studies because there is no college in my village, Balwa. The idea was to study hard and get a government job." As he went around filling up forms for admission to ISc in Patna's TPS College, he heard about the "country's toughest exam". And he decided to give it a try. That he had to share a dingy room with his father and brother did not deter him, and he studied hard — 17 hours a day. Yet, he could not clear the exam in 2008. Abhimanyu was devastated. His kinsmen, working as daily wage earners in places like Mumbai and Punjab,...