No place to study, she finds space on top of table
The New Indian Express|May 11, 2024
A student from the Nungambakkam Girls Higher Secondary School, B Sadhana, has topped the class 10 public examination among Chennai Corporation school students. Having scored 492 out of 500, with centums in science and social science, “I am extremely happy,” she told TNIE.
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No place to study, she finds space on top of table

The 15-year-old lives in a one-room housing board tenement in Nungambakkam’s Pushpa Nagar, with her parents, sister and grandfather. Her father P Balamurugan is a data entry operator, her mother B Vijayalakshmi a homemaker and her elder sister a student at Panimalar Engineering College.

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