In the quiet town of Paralakhemundi, decades ago, a young boy worked behind seven tables in a small hotel. He was barely 14, forced to abandon school after the seventh standard due to poverty. But even while cooking, cleaning, and sleeping under those very tables, he nurtured a dream that would one day transcend the boundaries of that cramped kitchen.

That boy — who bathed on railway platforms and relied on life itself as his teacher — would grow to become one of Odisha’s most impactful educationists and philanthropists: Dr. Tirupati Panigrahi, the visionary Founder & Chairman of the Hi-Tech Group of Institutions.

Deprived of traditional education, Dr. Panigrahi found his learning in the “University of Life.” At an age when most children are still under the guidance of parents and teache

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