SPOTLIGHT

Pearl Edibam, a student of Divine Child School in Surat who obtained 90 percent in her XII board examinations qualified for the Indian Institute of Technology entrance test, ranking 5,335 out of six lakh students across the country. The information was conveyed to Parsiana by noted cricket umpire Keki Doodhwala who also mentioned that in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination Edibam stood 3,947 out of nine lakh students, ranking 81 in Gujarat state.

Edibam, who hails from a family of doctors, in planning a career in engineering and computer science. Her father Vispy and grandfather Hoshang are surgeons, while her mother Sujata and grandmother Dhunmai are both gynecologists, Doodhwala reveals.