Sushma Verma

 

 

 

In a country where more than 35 per cent of girls are discouraged from studying and going to school, young prodigy Sushma Verma , daughter of a sanitation worker from Lucknow has a different story to tell! At age 7, Sushma had already completed her 10th. At 13, she had enrolled herself in college and was getting her Master’s Degree in Microbiology from Lucknow University.

Today she is 15 and has achieved yet another milestone by becoming the youngest Indian to have been enrolled as a PhD student at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU) in Lucknow.

Wise and way matured for her age, Sushma told The Times of India in an interview, “A person should always be judged by his or her talent and potential, not by age. I desperately wanted to become a doctor but now I have to wait till I turn 17 — it’s a huge disappointment for me.”

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