Poor background can be a hurdle but cannot stop you from fulfilling your dreams if you are determined. The inspiring story of Satyam Kumar, the son of a farmer in the Bhojpur district of Bihar, clearly tells this.
Kumar, currently doing his Ph.D. in Brain-Machine Interfaces at the University of Texas in Austin, cracked the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) in 2013 at the tender age of 13 and secured a seat in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur after securing a rank of 679. He became the youngest prodigy to achieve this feat by breaking the earlier record of Sahal Kaushik (14) from…