Bringing glory to his school and the city, a class III student of Apeejay Svran Global School, Faridabad, Dhruv Pandit, has earned a place in the India Book of Record for winning the maximum number of awards in a single academic year.
Dhruv’s journey for this record commenced in 2021, when he was in class II. In a year’s span, Dhruv won numerous awards in varied fields such as science, language, music, and sports, among others. These titles included various inter-school, inter-state and national level competitions.
In fact, Dhruv’s achievements are a testimony to his multifarious talent in both scholastic and co-scholastic areas that include Olympiads, Martial Arts tournaments, Abacus competitions and even the Spell Bee event. In all these areas, Dhruv had won a total of 42 titles in the academic year 2021-22, of which, the Indian Book of Records accredited 37.
Dhruv’s father, Dr Sandeep Pandit is a Consultant Non-Invasive Cardiologist and Diabetologist at Faridabad and his mother, Dr Meenu Pandit is Consultant Pulmonologist at Heart and lungs centre Faridabad. The family earlier resided in South Delhi, however, before Dhruv was born, they shifted to Faridabad in 2013.
Describing Dhruv's journey and his achievements, his mother says, “This is just the beginning for him. Dhruv has got the best from everyone in his family. No one at our home sits idle, neither we the parents nor Dhruv. Wherever he comes across some concept, he reads about it. There is a continuous process of learning. If we are reading something, Dhruv also reads something. If we are listening to music, Dhruv also plays something on his keyboard. There is a continuous learning process throughout the year at our home.”
Dhruv is also a music buff. After he is done with his studies, he loves to play his keyboard. He is also learning classical Indian music from Banaras University and gave his first university exam in June this year for vocal music. Currently, he is taking music classes from Guru Dhirender Kataria. He often relishes food from Bercos, the Thai restaurant. Dhruv’s enjoys watching television and his favourite TV channels include BBC EARTH, NAT GEO and DISCOVERY FOOD. Not only that, this young child excels in physical activities too as he likes Martial Arts and achieved the ‘Blue Belt’ level recently.
On being asked about his favourite one among the competitions, Dhruv told that he enjoyed the academic and music titles a lot. He rejoiced in the Science Olympiad too.
