Pritvik Sinhadc

My beloved Dindim,
Everything in my life leads back to you as an inspiration...
You've guided and raised me throughout my years, and your support and care has led to every single one of my achievements. From teaching me spelling in my first year after birth, to nights after nights of singing me to sleep, to always being a pillar of strength and support, you've made your Tublai into the person he is today...
From always standing up to injustice, to always being a fighter for your loved ones, to showing the might of compassion and understanding, you will always remain my lifeline! For my entire life, you've always been the light in every room, the fire in all our hearts, my guiding star, my mentor and pillar of support.
After eight long months of medical battles, I've lost my pillar. After eight long months of fighting, I can no longer look forward to those nights to hear you sing, 'Oh my darling! Oh my darling...' to put me to sleep. After eight long months, I can no longer look forward to your embrace.
Wherever you are, I hope you know how much your grandson misses you, how much your grandson loves you...Yet still, your inspiration will lead me on. I still remember the joy you got when I got into those universities, the excitement you showed when I became a Rise Global Winner, when I became the youngest author in paleontology and the youngest co-author of NASA Astrobiology Primer. I can still hear your scream of joy when I became a World Science Scholar! I will do my very best to keep your memory, your inspiration alive till the last day before I join you my beloved Dindim... Sunanda Dharchaudhuri Chayankanti Dharchaudhuri Bhaskar Sinha Indira Dharchaudhuri

The last two years threatened to demolish me, desecrate my passions, and literally capsize my life. As a cherry on top to multiple years of dealing with tumor-operations on my right arm and being plunged into the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, my kidneys bid a tearful farewell; I tested positive for COVID twice; underwent a soul-sucking transplant with a not-so-desired metric ton of immunosuppressants, and faced life’s first rejection from my new partner—my dad’s gift of a life-saving kidney.
Thankfully, just as my dreams began to slip into the void of non-existence, I realized the value of time, commitment, and perseverance, and pulled my passions together before they reached the ergosphere of my black hole of despair. Burning the midnight oil, often in hospital ICUs, I applied and got accepted to 23 incredible universities…
The result: Literally went into a month of mental torment unable to decline any of these universities. Thoughts rampaged in my brain: Couldn’t we change the education system and learn only for the pure joy of learning? Couldn’t I get a chance to choose 10, maybe five, alright, at least three universities to spend one year each in those spectacular pillars of knowledge? After all, I got into all of them because I was a fit…and knowledge is beautiful…there should be no decline, no second thoughts to knowledge…Sadly that did not happen, and today, I had to bid farewell to those incredible, world’s top 22 universities...
However, there was one that I couldn’t decline—the mind-blowing California Institute of Technology or Caltech—tough to get in, tougher to sustain…but can that deter the mind of a pure physicist, a researcher by heart, an aspiring scientist by soul?
So friends, while I cannot thank enough my teachers and my school, Dubai College, especially Mr. Jonathan Tate, my mentor Dr. Sara Walker at the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, my colleagues at CERN, Al Jalila Foundation, Rise—funding my dreams, my doctors at Mediclinic City Hospital, especially Dr. Farhad Janahi, Dr. Waldo Concepcion, Dr. Ramzi Abou Ayache and Dr. Martin Bitzan, my parents, grandparents, my doggos at PAWS for Therapy (the list can seriously go on and on), I commit with both my brain and mind to Caltech…Hope to do a Double Major in Physics and Astrophysics (I know, I know, that’s a bit too much, but as they say where there is a will, there is a way), and if possible, a minor in Planetary Sciences (mention of another minor like Mathematics…and my mother will kill me)...and so I stop here…On a serious note, I feel humbled, blessed and truly grateful…
Oh yeah, I will be joining a research group soon at Caltech, so stay tuned…Hope you will all be with me as you have always been…and whatever is the crisis, never give up. Always remind yourself that you need to pass through the most turbulent phase of a storm to reach the peaceful eye…
https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/education/2022/04/03/dubai-school-pupil-receives-offer-letters-from-five-ivy-league-universities/
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/education/uae-student-gets-accepted-into-23-universities-in-the-uk-and-us

UAE: Student gets accepted into 23 universities in the UK and US The teenager has a long record of achievements in academics and research