11/06/2025
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📫 I THOUGHT BIOLOGY WASN’T FOR BRAINS. IBM THOUGHT OTHERWISE
In 1970, IBM conducted a scholarship test for children of employees who had passed Higher Secondary.
My father, a clerk at IBM Delhi, said, “There’s a test.”
I simply said, “Okay.”
I didn’t know what IQ was.
But I took the test — cleared Math, Physics, Chemistry.
A few weeks later, I got the letter:
📜 IQ: 150
📜 Scholarship: Awarded
Only 4 students across Southeast Asia were selected. I was one.
But I dismissed Biology.
“No real brain teasers there,” I said.
Decades later, in 2024, I remembered that letter.
And I laughed. Because now I know:
Biology is the math of odds, the physics of the universe, and the alchemy of God's play.
Today, I live in a rented flat. My monthly income? ₹8,000–₹10,000.
But I’m not the story anymore.
My students are.
📍 The jhaduwali.
📍 The bartan wali.
📍 The mother who once asked, “Meri beti suraksh*t hai?”
They are learning digital skills.
They are buying land.
They are building homes.
They are becoming fearless.
📣 They don’t wait for safety. They own the key.
That’s what Digital Azadi School (DAS) is all about.
🙏 Thank you to Sandeep Bansali, the visionary behind DAS.
And thank you to entrepreneurship — the fire we give to others once we remember our own.
— Dr Nirmala Agarwal
MBBS | DGO | MRCOG | FRCOG
Past MRCOG Part 3 Examiner | Past MECOG Coach | The Creator
