Pinki gets scholarship

After a fantabulous night at the red carpet, eight year old Pinki is all smiles. No,�it is not the Oscar gold man who has made her smile. It is the full scholarship she has got from a medical and management institute based in Indore that has cheered her up this time.

Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences and the Aurobindo Institute of Management Science and Technology have offered Pinki a full scholarship till completion of her education in any stream – medical, dental, nursing, physiotherapy, engineering, pharmacy or Management – in their institutes. Elaborating on the scholarship, Dr. Vinod Bhandari and Kingshuk Trivedi, chairpersons of the institutes, said that Pinki is free to pursue any stream of knowledge she chooses in their institutes.

“The institutes will offer her a comprehensive scholarship covering the entire expenses to be incurred on tuition, hostel, mess, books and all other necessities,” said Dr. Vinod Bhandari with a smile.

This scholarship comes as a great reward for Pinki, who�hails from a poverty-stricken family in a small village in UP. Her parents are�extremely happy to receive the scholarship.

Pinki is the small girl who featured in the Oscar-winning short documentary film Smile Pinki directed by social worker and American director Megan Mylan. The documentary, portraying Pinki's journey from a cleft-lipped social outcast to a socially-acceptable, normal girl, won an Oscar this year.