Name- Ankit Gupta

Born & Brought up

I was born in Raniganj on 28th September, 1995. Raniganj is the South-

Eastern neighbourhood in Asansol. As raniganj was not so developed at
that time having limited resources, my father decided to shift to Kolkata
for our better future. After staying for 3-4 months in raniganj, we
shifted to Kolkata, Howrah. Since then, I have spent 23years of my life
here in Kolkata, City of joy. What I have adapted by staying over here is
knowledge about cultures. Kolkata is well known for its culture this is
the reason it is also called the cultural city of West Bengal. Staying in
Kolkata has made me go crazy with my diet. I have become a foodie
over here. Kolkata is called city of joy because of its food and festivity.
There is vast and different varieties of food items present in Kolkata.
Ex- Rasgulla, misti doi, biryani, fish etc.

Family Background

Before my birth, my family was a joint family of 14 members. My

paternal uncle and aunt has 5 sons and 4 daughters. My grandmother
came to Kolkata along with my parents after my birth while my
grandfather died 3 years before my birth. When I was 3 years old, my
grandmother died due to heart attack. The only thing I could remember
is her love and affection towards me. I still wish I could have spent
more years under her love and affection so that I could have more
memories with her. Now there are only 3 people in my family including
myself. My father name is Santosh Gupta, my mother name is Sweta
Gupta. I have heard from my mother about my father’s struggle when
we were new to this place. My father has spent 22years of his life in
becoming a good businessman and in providing us a better future. My
father is inclined towards manufacturing dyed clothes and selling them.
I have been to my father’s office and seen him work with full dedication
and determination. From there I have learnt that earning money is not
as easy as I used to think. It requires both dedication and passion to
earn daily livelihood. I have seen how my father fulfills all his
responsibility towards family as well as business. Previously I used to
run from the basic responsibility given to me from my mother, like
bringing groceries from market. After seeing my father, I have stopped
running from the responsibilities given to me. My mother is a
homemaker. Her interest lies in doing things perfectly and completely
on time.

Educational Qualification

I have done my schooling from ST. Helens School. I have scored 81% in
my ICSE exams. And 80.83% in ISC exams. Uptill class 7 I used to be a
lazy student with below average grades. I used to copy things from my
friends. For me, my marks never bothered me. My teacher used to tell
my mother that I always used to be in my own world. It was the first
time when I failed in a particular subject, my mother arranged tutions
for me so that I could improve. I still remember my tution teacher. His
name is Ajay Das. He worked a lot towards improving my basics. My
class strength was 65. And because of his guidance I was ranked 14th in
my next terminal exams. My friends and teachers started seeing me as
a different student altogether. There praise made me work harder. I
ultimately turned myself from being a lazy student to hard working
student. In the middle of class 8, I became so over confident that
started focusing less on my studies and started participating in much of
the co-curricular activities. It was my first time when I took a step
forward towards dancing. Before this, I have never danced in my life.
My body was flexible and my dance teacher used to praise me for this. I
was so much involved in my school annual concert that I neglected my
studies completely. I was praised for my dance, but I performed poorly
in my class 8 final terminal examination. This proved the saying “no
work and only play makes Jack a dull boy.” In class 9, I stopped taking
any active part in any of the events and focused on my studies. As I
have always been an average student, so I have scored average in my
board exams.

I have completed my bachelors from The Bhawanipur Education Society

College in 2017. I have scored 58.8% in my graduation under the field of
commerce from Calcutta University. School life is totally different from
college life. This I understood by meeting different types of people.
During my graduation, I understood nobody stays for long period of
time as my school friends were totally different from college friends.
School friends used to help each other with project works but in college
even friends used to see the project work as competition, so they were
least interested in helping out others.

Failures

My first failure was in class 7, when I failed in a particular subject. I

understood failure more deeply when I failed towards cracking CPT
twice. I lost my confidence completely because of this failure. I started
spending more time at home rather than spending time with my
friends. My father started scorning me when I told him that I want to
do MBA and appear for CAT in 2016. I still remember his comments
‘CPT nahi clear kar paya MBA kaha se karega’. I was so depressed that
my mother took my side and calmed me down. She convinced my
father for allowing me to take tuitions for CAT exams. Instead of
focusing on my failure and realizing my mistakes, I moved on towards
another failure. While preparing for CAT, I was attracted to a girl which
resulted in my biggest failure. Instead of studying, I used to spend time
with her by going to different places. I developed so strong feelings for
her that I could not resist a day without talking to her. I forgot that I
have CAT examinations after few weeks and how I struggled for this
approval after my failure in CPT. Just 10 days before my CPT exam, we
broke up. This affected me so much that I ruined my CAT exam. I got
only one call from B-school named, IBS Hyderabad. I was so ashamed
that I did not speak about my results to my parents, instead I told them
a false percentile. I was so deeply affected that I ruined my interview at
IBS Hyderabad.

Achievements

My first achievement was in class 7 when I was ranked 14th. Those

praises motivated me very much at that time. During my higher
secondary exams I took part in a cooking competition organized by
TAZZA Television, where I emerged as a winner in making bread pizza.
As a child, I loved eating fast food but my mother was not interested in
making it. So I learned how to make it by watching television shows. I
have won many Drawing competitions during my childhood, but now,
somewhere I lost my interest in it. Before class 7, I used to be shy and
was quite introvert. But after stepping in class 8, I started taking part in
as much events as I can. This made me lose my shyness and gain
confidence towards stage performance. I have not achieved much in
my graduation, as far as I have achieved yet. Scoring 90percentile in
XAT 2018 exam was quite an achievement for me. My father did not
praise me directly. I came to know from one of my relatives that my
father is very happy with my performance in exam and they quoted his
saying. My father’s exact words were “iss bar ankit kamal kiya hai. Iss
bar sabko dekh dekh k uske andar bhi kuch karne k junun chada h, iss
bar kuch prove karke dekhayga vo.” Though I have not cracked any B-
school’s interview till now but these words from my father is much
more than any of the achievements till now. This is what gave me my
confidence back after my CPT failure and my CAT 2016 failure.

Co-curriculars

Throughout my graduation, I was actively involved in taking part in

Debates. Particularly those organized my MODEL UNITED NATIONS.
Through this I have learnt how to look at a particular topic differently. I
have learnt how to lead forward while making a point and look at
discussions from all angles. Apart from this I was a part of an NGO also.
I have organized many blood donation camps. Being a part of an NGO, I
came across different facets of an organization like budgeting,
marketing and operations.
Hobbies

I love dancing. Dancing is something which I do to bring myself from a

tensed situation. I love dancing on bollywood songs. Dancing pacifies
my mind. Apart from dancing I also like playing cricket. I am the biggest
and craziest fan of Sachin Tendulkar. Cricket is more of a war for me. I
try every possible ways in winning a match. Apart from cricket, I love
organizing and managing events. I have organized various blood
donation camps, cricket tournaments and recreational functions.

Dedication

I used to see people riding bikes, on the other hand I didn’t even knew
how to ride a bicycle. I used to feel people who ride bikes are too cool. I
asked my father for a bike but he denied me. He told me that I don’t
know how to ride a bicycle than how can I demand for a bike. I took a
promise from him that the day I showed him riding a cycle, he will buy a
bike for me. I was firm towards having my own ride. I learnt basics skills
of bicycle in two days and showed it to my father. And the outcome
was I got my own ride.

During my graduation I saw people who used to play guitar were very
much popular in college. I decided to learn guitar on my own. As guitar
cost much and I hardly had money left from my pocket money. I
borrowed guitar from one of my friends. I started learning guitar
tutorials from Youtube. I have posted various videos of mine in
instagram, and comments from my friends, relatives and other people
motivated me to work harder. I finally performed in teachers day event
organized in my college and got appreciations from my teachers and
batch mates. It was all possible because of my dedication only.

My interest towards cricket had made it possible for me to organize a

cricket tournament in our locality. Where everybody seemed to be
clueless regarding how to organize. They use to tell me that organizing
such a event in my locality was not possible. But I was firm and tried
every possible ways for organizing this tournament. I had a walk up and
down the municipal corporation office for 6-7 days regularly for the
approval. At first they did not approved but slowly and steadily my
effort convinced them and on the 8th day they grant me the permission
for this tournament. At last I can say that my dedication made it
possible.

Other interest

I love to play guitar. I never knew how to play it I learnt it through

Youtube. And slowly slowly I learned it well through my regular practice
and diligence toward it. During my graduation, I was a notorious
student. I used to make different vocals during lectures and made the
class interesting. While my teacher never got irritated, in fact they
suggested me to go for beat boxing or something like that. I started
rapping along with beat boxing. I also like to play chess in my free time.
Bucket list

What comes first in my list is sky diving as I want to overcome my fear

of heights. Also my first desire is to take my parents for a foreign trip to
Dubai because there is an underwater room named Atlantis. I want my
parents to experience this. I also desire to spend a week at Las Vegas
and enjoy it to my fullest. I would love to go on a dinner date with the
actor, Shraddha Kapoor near sea shore. I would also like to join Balaji
Tele Films as I have recently got the call for photo shoot which would
be something different and innovative.