Amitabha bagchi biography of williams

There was no parental pressure as they were confident of my academic prowess.

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I loved my new found independence and freedom. But gradually, the pressure of keeping pace with academics started percolating. In my first semester, I started playing carrom, and got hooked to it. This took a toll on my grades initially but I could make up on it later. Bagchi concedes that there were some initial academic setbacks but gradually he could overcome them.

The young boy was, however, clear about one thing—to become a teacher at IIT Delhi. But I knew that teaching was something that was in sync with my temperament. I realised that academic excellence was important but one has to move beyond the realms of academics. I took up many extra-curricular activities, even dabbled a bit in theatre.

I learnt how to accept failures, stood for elections —lost but contested again. But what really enamoured me, he said was the style of teaching of some of the professors.