{"id":103,"date":"2013-10-18T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T11:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2013-10-18T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T11:37:29","slug":"student-gets-the-iit-degree-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/student-gets-the-iit-degree-after-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Gets the IIT Degree after Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013828-12614459-1885-Akshay-askiitians.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104 \" title=\"Student Gets the IIT Degree after Death\" alt=\"Student Gets the IIT Degree after Death\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013828-12614459-1885-Akshay-askiitians-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student Gets the IIT Degree after Death<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In one of the uncommon tales of an eternal courage and success in the history of IITs and, probably, any other education institution in India, Akshay Dhoke, an IIT Bombay student, receives his engineering degree a year later, after succumbing to a rare form of blood cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Akshay, a Nagpur topper in class 10<sup>th<\/sup> and 12<sup>th<\/sup>, was ranked among the top 200 aspirants in the JEE. A great fan of Rahul Dravid, he also helmed Nagpur cricket team to state level.<\/p>\n<p>Akshay Dhoke\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s first brush with IIT came when he joined IIT-Powai in the year 2009 to study M. Tech in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Microelectronics. He was pursuing a dual degree.<\/p>\n<p>His illness was revealed in 2011 by a team of doctors, who also advised him a Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Akshay succumbed to his illness on September 14<sup>th<\/sup>, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Akshay\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s father received the award for him on institutions\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 convocation day and spoke at lengths about his son, his dreams, his illness, and his fight against cancer.<br \/>\nThis post was published by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109449750854720186719?rel=author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aditya Singhal<\/a>, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\">askIITians<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the uncommon tales of an eternal courage and success in the history of IITs and, probably, any other education institution in India, Akshay Dhoke, an IIT Bombay student, receives his engineering degree a year later, after succumbing to a rare form of blood cancer. Akshay, a Nagpur topper in class 10th and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}