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Name	Puroo Roy
Born	(1999-05-05) May 5, 1999 Chhapra, Bihar
Name in real life	पुरू कुमार रॉय
Gender	Asexual
Pronouns	He/him
Nationality	Indian
Country	India
Current location	South West Delhi
Languages	Hindi English Bhojpuri French German Russian Dutch Italian Latin
Time zone	+5:30 UTC
Current time	The time is currently 19:46:28 UTC.
Ethnicity	Aryan
Race	Brown
Height	6'0
Weight	76 kg
Hair	Dark brown
Eyes	Medium brown
Handedness	Left-handed
Blood type	B+
Sexuality	Masculine
IQ	139
Personality type	Submissive Pessimism Persistence
Alignment	Big tent
Family and friends
Marital status	Single
Pets	Cockatiel
Education and employment
Occupation	Assistant professor
Employer	College of Art, Delhi
Education	Masters of Design, Visual Communication
Primary school	Delhi Public School, East of Kailash
High school	Delhi Public School, RK Puram
University	Delhi Technological University
Hobbies, favourites and beliefs
Hobbies	Gaming Film TV shows Reading
Religion	Hindu atheism
Politics	Indian nationalism Antinatalism Green politics Gandhism
Aliases	Pukkuro Pur__0_0__
Books	ATG: Crosso Chronicles The Better Side of You
Contact info
Website	Personal website
Discord	pukkuro
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/in/purookumarroy
Account statistics
Joined	December 14, 2017 (2017-12-14)
First edit	August 11, 2019 (2019-08-11)
Autoconfirmed	May 10, 2020 (2020-05-10)
Extended confirmed	7 July 2024
Permissions	Extended confirmed protection

I, Puroo Kumar Roy (Hindi: पुरू कुमार रॉय, romanized: Purū Kumāra Rôya, lit. 'The young king of the mountains'), better known on Wikipedia as User:Pur 0 0, am an Indian polymath who currently serves as an assistant professor at College of Art, Delhi. I contribute to articles related to my field of interest by deepening the information for articles related to India, correcting the grammar, adding ISO 15919 transliterations and decorating the page.

As of 7 July 2024, I have become an extended confirmed user on the English Wikipedia. I am more active on the Hindi Wikipedia, where I have created over 500 articles.

Early life

I was born on 15 May 1999 in Chhapra to Bhumihar Brahmin parents. My family came from a lineage of teachers, which is why in spite of not being well-off, we always believed our mind to be our true wealth, one that can never be taken away from us and shall always feed us no matter what the situation may be.

At the age of one, our family shifted to Delhi, where we have resided to this day. It was here that I completed my education from playschool to my master's.

Education

Primary and middle school

I started my schooling a little late. I was intended to join my sister at Sardar Patel Vidyalaya. However, my admission was rejected for being left-handed. Eventually, I was admitted to Delhi Public School, East of Kailash, one of the two primary school branches of Delhi Publics School, R.K. Puram.

Although I was always interested in reading and writing from an early age, I was never particularly fond of school. I was never able to stick to a curriculum, I was very forgetful and would thus often forget to do my homework or bring materials for art and craft activities, I was body-shamed, and often faced racist remarks for being a Bihari, particularly from the wealthier Punjabi students. It did not help that my parents never allowed me to indulge in "immoral activities" like hanging out with my classmates outside of school, watch films, play games, be in a relationship, or generally do anything that the other students in my school did, thereby distancing me even more from them. As a coping mechanism to cover up my loneliness, I developed the habit of talking to myself.

I had never seen internet until I was ten years old, and we had television at our house when I was eight years old. So most of my childhood was spent without them. Since I lived in a filthy ghetto close to a busy road, my parents did not want me to go out outside without supervision either. So I did not have much to do during my childhood. In my spare time, I would write stories and make comics, most notably fan fiction on Sonic the Hedgehog, a character I did not know much about at the time and yet found very appealing.

Secondary and senior secondary

When I was in tenth standard, I befriended one of my enemies from middle school, along with a student who had joined our school a year before. Although I did have many good friends in school, what made the friendship of three of us so special was that we were all outcasts. No one else was our friend, and thus we shared a bond unaltered by any other person. They were the last friends I ever had at school.

From the next year, I went into depression, after I began studying for the Joint Entrance Exam against my will. My interest was always in creativity and fantasy. The only reason I had opted for the science stream was because of computer science. I was really interested in programming, particularly C++, because I wanted to develop video games based on stories I wrote in my spare time. However, once I learnt that the computer science taught in Indian schools is a waste of time, I lost all the interest I had in it.

At that point, my only source of emotion was a novel that I was writing with my friends, called ATG: Crosso Chronicles. This, however, had to also be put on halt after my mother discovered I had been writing the book instead of spending all my time studying as I was expected to do. At this point, I had to give up everything I enjoyed. If I were to ever say the worst time of my life is to be chosen, I could consider this to be the one.

The year of nothingness

After graduating from school, I did not manage to get admission in any college of my choice. I saw my wealthy classmates getting into international universities, while the bookworms got admission in the institutes of national importance. This embarrassed me even further, and I decided that I would rather drop a year and study hard to get admission in one of the premier government universities rather than going to a private college.

From then on, since I had nothing else to do, I decided to spend an entire year studying. Although my mother had become more lenient on me at this point, allowing me to play games and watch TV, my father had become even more strict and controlling. He would force me to study all the time, and try to humiliate me by telling me what all his friends' children, who are my age, are doing.

The efforts proved to be fruitful, as I gave the entrance examination the next year and scored an All India Rank (AIR) 173. This was a rare moment in my life when my efforts actually yielded fruitful results. To this day, my father has never compared me with any of his friends' children. In this duration, I also began reading books on a Kindle Paperwhite that I received as a birthday present. It helped me reconnect with my passion of reading, something that has remained ever since. With my rank, I took admission in Delhi Technological University.

Bachelor's degree

My days of completing my bachelor's degree were what I consider to be the best days of my life, particularly the first year. I was the highest rank holder from the state, which gave me immense popularity at college. I had decided to abandon my outcast image that had been a part of me during school, and turn a fresh page on life. I made friends with all circles, and learnt a lot of things about life. Since I had been an outcast in school, I did not know how to behave socially, and thus had a lot to catch up which I was fortunately able to do in these four years.

However, not everything was smooth sailing. For one, I became too overconfident because of my AIR 173, due to which I stopped paying attention to my studies. Consequently, my academic performance fell drastically in the second semester itself. While I was catching up on how to behave like a socially acceptable person, everyone else had already moved on to learning how to get a job. This was something that came back to haunt me and has been doing so to this date. While everyone else was opting for elective subjects that were to help them later in life, I was choosing the ones I enjoyed doing. When everyone figured how to write job applications to big companies, I was still volunteering for the department. At an age when everyone learns to live alone, I was still being protected by my parents, who still treated me like a child.

Eventually, the COVID-19 pandemic came over. Our college was shut down, and no companies were to come for the on-campus placement. All the students had to find a job on their own using the skill set they acquired during these four years. And since I had none, I could not apply to any major company. While my CGPA improved during the lockdown and I even interned at many companies, I could not get hired for a major company like the rest of my peers. I was offered the position of a content writer at a consultancy firm, I underestimated what I was receiving and declined the offer, choosing to do a master's degree instead. I wanted to do a master's degree in Europe, but my father decided that while I do not have anything else to do, I should start doing a master's degree from my own university instead. Even though I refused to do it, my father forced me into doing it, thinking that even if my admission gets rejected from the universities I wished to study in, at least I will still have something in my hands. Listening to him was the biggest mistake of my life.

Master's degree

As good as my days of completing my bachelor's degree were, my days of completing my master's degree were just as horrible. I was ashamed, and had a sense of humiliation in going to the same university that I had done my bachelor's from. Everyone who came to pursue a master's degree in the university had done their bachelor's from colleges that were not reputable or unheard of. I had scored an AIR 419 in the Common Entrance Examination for Design, which was much higher than all my other batchmates, giving me an extra feeling of not fitting in the group. I felt as if the lecturers who knew me must be thinking I am a failure who could not even get a job, and is now wasting time here.

To add insult to the injury, my bachelor's degree could not get printed due to a technical glitch, and I had to return from my convocation empty-handed. My batchmates from bachelor's had also learnt that I am doing a master's degree from the university, making me feel like I had been stripped naked publicly. I had another depression, this time even worse than the one I had from senior secondary school. Even to this day I have never forgiven my father for his decision. If my admission had been rejected from the universities I wished to attend, I could have at least learnt from my mistakes and applied next year, or the year after that. But now I had only one year to apply for all the universities in all the countries. I had to learn about the requirements, create a portfolio, get the language certificates, write the letters of recommendation and statements of intent, and hope that I get all of this right in the first attempt.

As expected, my application was rejected, and I had no choice but to complete my master's degree from the university that I had grown to hate at this point. Since I wasted so much time applying for all the colleges and improving my portfolio with various artistic works, I did not have time to focus on my academic performance. As a result, I began tanking in it too. To further add insult to the injury, I did not get even a decent internship during this period. So I would not even say this was all for nothing, but rather it was all to make things even worse than what they could have been.

Articles created by me

The following are the articles created by me on Wikipedia. This only includes the articles that I have created from scratch and have not been removed.

S.no.	Article
1	Tandem: A Tale of Shadows
2	North Central Zone Cultural Centre
3	De-hyphenation

Trivia

This user is a Polyglot, the user is able to master numerous languages.

This user lives in India.

This user lives in the Indian National Capital Territory of Delhi.

This user is an atheist.

This user is left-handed.

This user is Addicted to Wikipedia.

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This user is a native of the Indian state of Bihar.

MThis user has a Master's degree.

DESThis user is an expert in Design.

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