It was quite an ordinary day at Jawahar Vidyalaya senior secondary school at Ashok Nagar here.
It was quite an ordinary day at Jawahar Vidyalaya senior secondary school at Ashok Nagar here. The school ran by the clock on Tuesday morning, oblivious for quite sometime of the extraordinary achievement of one of its former students. It was much later in the day that the fact sunk in — 1987 alumnus Sundararajan Pichai had been appointed chief executive officer of Google.
Even as cyber space was abuzz with comments and posts about the “Chennai boy”, the school was calm and quite like their former pupil, who had literally lived the school’s motto: “Be Brilliant”.
Alice Jeevan, school principal, said: “Sundar studied here from Class 1 to 10 and was one of the calm students we have seen. He was good at academics. We have been following his growth ever since he was appointed to a top post in Google a couple of months ago.”
“Nothing gives me more satisfaction than Sundar becoming CEO of the top company. We would love to invite him to our school. He was much interested in science subjects at school,” she said.
