TURA: In the din of everyday grind, some dare to be different. So it is with Anoushka M Marak of Don Bosco College, Tura, the lone topper from the Garo Hills in this year’s Higher Secondary School Leaving Certification (HSSLC) Arts examinations.
The eighteen year old who got letter marks in four subjects also secured the highest mark in English.
Hailing from a family of three siblings, her results are a treat to her mother Elsie Dora Marak and a double whammy for her father Ujwal Sen, headmaster of Embee Rosebud School in Tura whose student Neelam Kumari also secured the first position in the state’s top twenty list on Monday.
For Anoushka, a product of Sherwood, success is not a lonely affair with William Wordsworth and Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho for company.
“Coelho’s novels on life are soul searching and Wordsworth’s ‘Lucy’ rekindles one’s love for nature” says Anoushka.
In an age rife with rat race Anoushka opted for Humanities rather than science for she was not content to ride the beaten track and rather than copy wanted to create.
For Anoushka who believes that Humanities is a life changer and aspires to be an educationist, her aim right now is to pursue her higher studies at the at the prestigious Presidency College, which has the likes of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen as alumnus.
Like any other young aspirant, she has varied dreams, one of them being to clear the country’s civil services and finally join the United Nations to help make a better world.