T.V.
Anupama dreamed to enter the IAS right from her school days. In achieving that
aim with glory, she has done Kerala proud.
“Aim high. There is no end to what you can achieve.” The words
of T.V. Anupama, who won the fourth rank in the Civil Services Examination, are
loaded with emotion and earnestness. Years of hard work to achieve her goal
reflect in her words as she speaks to The
Hindu-EducationPlus in her home at Maranchery, near Ponnani,
in Malappuram district.
Ms. Anupama had set her goals when she was in school. Even when
she joined BITS, Pilani's Goa campus, one of the premier engineering
institutions in the country, her mind was fixed on the Indian Administrative
Service (IAS). Anything less would have left her dissatisfied.
Although she was sure to crack the Civil Services Examinations,
she did not expect a rank so high. In that, Ms. Anupama did the entire State
proud. With a well-defined strategy to reach her high-set goals, this
electronics engineering graduate looks sure to inspire thousands of students
aspiring to go places on our campuses.
Ms. Anupama's selection of geography and Malayalam as her
subjects for the Civil Services Examination may have surprised many. But her
strategy paid dividends when she cracked the IAS intensive. She took the
services of three coaching institutes, all for different purposes.
Taking the advice of many from the Civil Service, she
concentrated on the mains during her six-month coaching at ALS Training
Institute in New Delhi. And in the remaining five months, she took up the
preparations for prelims at the Civil Services Academy of the State government
in Thiruvananthapuram.
with ease and élan. According to her, taking engineering or
science subjects for the examinations is like gambling
An avid reader of Malayalam literature, she had enjoyed reading
almost all the 21 books prescribed for the mains second paper. What she needed
was to strengthen her basics and knowledge about the history and development of
the Malayalam language and literature. Ms. Anupama started preparing for the
examinations in earnest from June 2008. Her 11 months' preparation was focussed
and
But Ms. Anupama believes the real
challenge is yet to come. Hopeful of getting an opening in her home State, she
has set her mind on finding better ways and means of helping society.
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