TURA: Anoushka M Marak of Don Bosco College Tura, the lone student from the Garo Hills among the top-ten holders in Higher Secondary School Leaving Certification (HSSLC) Arts examinations 2019, asserted that success is not a lonely affair with William Wordsworth and Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho for company.
After her higher studies, she dreams to join the United Nations.
“Coelho’s novels on life are soul-searching and Wordsworth’s ‘Lucy’ rekindles one’s love for nature,” said Anoushka, a product of Sherwood.
In an age rife with rat race, the eighteen-year-old, who got letter marks in four subjects and also secured the highest mark in English, opted for Humanities rather than Science because she was not content to ride the beaten track and rather than copy wanted to create.
Anoushka, who believes that Humanities is a life changer and aspires to be an educationist, wants to pursue her higher studies at the prestigious Presidency College, which has the likes of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen as alumnus.
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.
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 world a better place to live in.