Anand Kumar Biography
(Teacher)
Birthday: January 1, 1973 (Capricorn)
Born In: Patna, Bihar, India
Anand Kumar is an Indian teacher who is best known for the 'Super 30' program, an initiative that coaches brilliant students from poor families in breaking the Joint Entrance Examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), which is considered tougher than getting into Harvard. Coming from a low-income family, his dreams of higher studies in mathematics were shattered after his peon father died suddenly. He later determined to make sure that young talents do not die out for lack of money, and started the ‘Ramanujam School of Mathematics’ to provide cheap coaching and sponsor higher education of needy children. Despite the fact that competing institutes have assorted to crime to prevent his ‘revolution’ to make education accessible to the poor, it doesn’t scare him as he intends to be an example to others who might create such initiatives in the future. Also, he feels that silently he is feeding another kind of revolution, as thanks to his efforts, clerks like his late father now dream of making their children IAS officers instead of clerks.