'My ticket out': the Indian village where every family has an engineer
by Dipti Nagpaul in Mumbai and Rimjhim Kumariin in Pa from on (#594J6)
Students from a small community traditionally known for weaving are beating the odds to gain coveted university places
He had tossed and turned all night. When he finally got out of bed at 4am, Anand Kumar realised his parents had too.
The 17-year-old was confident he had worked hard for his exam - the joint entrance exam (JEE), which is the ticket to India's finest engineering institutions - but the anxiety was undeniable. Huddled together in their living room last week, the family sat refreshing the JEE homepage repeatedly on two smartphones as they waited for the results to be uploaded.
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