Episode 873
Anand Kumar
Mon, 2019-Sep-23 01:57 UTC
Length - 1:53
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With 223,646 views on Sunday, 22 September 2019 our article of the day is Anand Kumar.
Anand Kumar (born 1 January 1973) is an Indian educator and a mathematician best known for his Super 30 programme, which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches underprivileged students for IIT-JEE, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). By 2018, 422 out of 480 students had made it to the IITs and Discovery Channel showcased his work in a documentary. Kumar has spoken at MIT and Harvard about his programs for students from the underprivileged sections of Indian society. Kumar and his school have been the subject of several smear campaigns, some of which have been carried in Indian media sources. His life and work are portrayed in the 2019 film, Super 30, where Kumar is played by Hrithik Roshan.
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For the full current version of the article, see Anand Kumar on Wikipedia.
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