ASHA APARTMENTS, 416, S.V. ROAD

Biography
Santosh Kumar Panda, born on 2nd April 1983 in Dhenkanal, Orissa, on an auspicious day of Ram Navami, the birth day of Lord Ram in Hindu Mythology belongs to a lower middle-class Oriya Brahmin nuclear family. His father was a govt. servant staying in quarters provided by state govt. He had his early education in many schools due to his father’s transfer that made him scattered in his earlier life He had his early education in Oriya medium at Kabera Madhapur UP School (preschool), Kabera, Dhenkanal & then Dhanamandal UP School, Dhanamandal, Jajapur, Orissa & then high school in Niali High school, Niali, Cuttack which he left in midterm of his tenth grade & transferred to another school in Jagatsinghpur i.e. S.K. Academy, Jagatsinghpur due to his father’s transfer. He got a distinction among all the students from his school & got award for his achievements in his district. But then his father’s health became deteriorated more & after struggling for two years he finally died in 1999. This left him with huge responsibility at a adolescent age as he is the elder son of a Oriya Brahmin family. So he dropped out one year in his twelfth grade in S.V.M. College, Jagatsinghpur which he found very intellectually engaging & at the same time very difficult to continue due to his worst financial condition. Then her mother after a very long long period of one year got posted after many many requests persuasions to higher officers in govt rankings as they had no such influential contacts there. & that made them somewhat stable. He then continued his study & got passed in first-class grade in his 12 th science exam which made her mother very proud as she didn’t expect such a result from his son due to their circumstances. A Then he went to Cuttack for the first time for preparing pre entrance for medical & engineering exam in 2000 & stayed there e for two years when he came in touch with all types of literature. Then after two years he could not qualify the state entrance due to neck throat competition & no quotas which changed his mind & he joined pharmacy in Bhubaneswar in a college regarded as one of the oldest pharmacy college of the country. Then he continued his study there for next couple of years under Utkal University Bhubaneswar & then Biju Pattnaik University of Tecvhnology& now he had to do something to earn money as quick as possible under family pressure. So he decided to go to Delhi to do some job at his friend’s laboratory in AIIMS who was working there. But unfortunately he didn’t get anything & spend a very long 3 months there with his friend. Mean while the result of GATE entrance came out & he secured the good percentile to get admitted in a good college for higher study. But now the problem was the money which he could not manage& the Principal of the college even threatened him to withdraw his application form if he had no money. Then a unknown stranger came to him who remained a good friend till date & asked him about this situation which made him to arrange some money for the time being as his family borrowed the money & gave to him for the admission. Then his struggle continued for two long years in Pune which made him stronger & literally more affluent. After his Master's Degree in Pharmacy, he joined as a Lecturer in 2009 in a pharmacy college in Amreli, Gujarat. Then this job no more interested him & he quieted it & joined in a pharma company. Financial instabilities & family responsibilities made him to change to many more companies in the coming years. He still works in a company in Mumbai.