The sound of music...

ISC topper has music on mind

Jaskiran Chopra | TNN

Dehradun: Gaurav Sood, a student of Doon School, loves western music and wants to have a band one day. Incidentally, Sood topped the national charts of ISC exams by scoring 99%! Clearly not a bookworm, Sood, who scored 100% in Maths and Chemistry and 98% in English and Physics, was in Mumbai jamming with some friends when the results were declared on Tuesday. This is the first time that a student of the region has topped.

“He is expected back home soon and we will give him a grand reception,’’ say proud parents Amar and Jyoti Sood. “He plays the guitar extremely well,’’ says younger brother Rishi, also a student of Doon School. Though Gaurav wants to be an engineer, he will be a musician at heart always, add his parents. They say he is still contemplating whether to do Economic Hons or Engineering.

In Mumbai, Gaurav and his friends were meeting with various musicians including ones from Bollywood. Jyoti says the group had last year recorded an album called Hiatus.

Skand Goyal, another Dosco, topped the school in the Commerce stream by scoring 97.83%. Skand says he is not yet sure about the career he should pursue but it would definitely be something that will contribute to the knowledge economy. He writes poetry in Hindi and was the chief editor of the school’s Hindi journal.

Despite being in boarding school, Skand says he got a lot of support from his entire family.