At one instance somebody told him “Arts hi padhna hai na, local school mai admission le lo, usme padhne jaisa hota hi kya hai”, phrases like “Abhi sirf sapne dekh rha hai, 10 din mai akkal thikane aajayegi” became very common. But he had already made up his mind to challenge the stereotypes around and follow what he considered his passion.
Our boy, who had courage, somehow got to know about DPS RK Puram. The school had an excellent humanities department, a perfect place to spend last two years of school. This small town boy had an outstanding ground connect, as he puts in his words, in a small town, local "political and social events occupy the centre-stage of everyone's life, somehow they affect everyone. Similarly, government and public authorities play an important role in impacting people's lives. It's slightly different in bigger towns, politics is slightly impersonal." Although his struggle began pretty soon, students with very good schooling background, excellent language command were his classmates. DPS expected that students have laudable language skills and need to learn the concepts. However, the English-medium school in which he studied till 10th was barely English compared to the likes of DPS. He took this as a challenge, burned the midnight oil to perfect his skills by reading each and everything relevant, he can.
In this very competitive environment, he was again faced with a question, what after schooling? Economics, Law or something else? This is where he started connecting dots with his interests. When he was barely 16, we wanted to be the change he wishes to see. He realised that any significant change in social, political or business sphere in India could be enacted only with the help of law. This is how he realised his career interest.
With all the hard work he could put, he wrote CLAT and scored AIR-9. Probably the only student from Western Madhya Pradesh to achieve this feat. His success was reported in all the major newspapers.
NLSIU Bangalore, considered to be one of the best law schools in Asia, gave admission to Aradhya. It was exactly the place where a person like him wanted to be. This place taught him to unlearn several assumptions that were earlier ingrained in him. He developed an ability to question the accepted norms, isn’t it what a good lawyer should do? It was a place for conversation, debate and challenging the conventions. His love for debate won him a place to speak in the NLS Union Debate multiple times along with the like of Mr. Ram Jethmalani. Unlike a lot of other courses, theory and research makes the backbone of Law and is highly respected in the top legal circles. To be published in reputed journals is the dream of any law student, Aradhya did it more than 12 times in his college, Harvard Law & Oxford Law were on the list.
He would be the youngest in the batch of LLM 2017-18 at Yale. His life goal remains to make an impression on the public policy in India not just become a regular lawyer.
While he has an ocean of opportunities and things to do, three words can summarise his incredible journey: Passion, Courage, Ambition.
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