DEBASHREE PURKAYASTHA, BCH India-Silchar Ambassador
DEBASHREE PURKAYASTHA
BCH Wing - Lung Cancer Hub, BCH India - Silchar Ambassador Coordinator
Ex-Biology Lecturer at Central Junior College Silchar, co-Head of Pustá (an online Publishing and Book-selling website)
Region: Silchar, India
I was born in a countryside and started my schooling from there itself Pranavnanda Vidya Mandir (Bharat Sebashram Sangha) was the name of my school. Later on my family moved to Vivekananda road, a residential townside and there I joined Aryan Junior College Silchar for Higher Secondary degree. I completed my Graduation from Gurucharan College Silchar with honours in Botany and a Gold medal for being top in University and other awards related to that. Done a lot of extracurricular activities like Course on Entrepreneurship from NIESBUD, done a lot of certified workshops on Legal Awareness Programs, Workshop on Mushroom cultivation, food processing, National and International seminars on Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, research and trends, etc., participated in Quiz, singing and Writing competitions. Later on, I joined Assam University Silchar, Department of Life Science (Botany) and successfully completed my Masters with dissertation under the mentorship of Dr Sanjiv Kumar Panda sir in the year 2019. Then I got sick and being diagnosed with PCOS having extreme swollen uterus and ovaries full of cysts. So, I decided to take a year off and hence at the end of 2019, me and my brother thought of launching our website (https://pusta.in/) and successfully on January 2020 we launched it. Then I joined Central Junior College Silchar as Biology Lecturer and continued teaching there. I appeared GATE 2020 and cleared in first attempt. Then the world hit the pandemic and due to severity, I have to be dormant for 3months concentrating more on Pustá as it was newly launched. And I tried to use my Gate fellowship but there's so less opportunity due to the present condition then so I decided to go for preparing CSIR NET and I subscribed Unacademy. Thats all I was doing...am doing.
MY HOBBIES: I love gardening, indoor-outdoor both. Apart from that, I love to spend time with my younger sister, drawing/painting. I love Writing a lot and for that I have both your quote ( https://www.yourquote.in/debashreepurkayastha_96 ) and mirakee accounts. I love singing and I got it from my mother she's an all-rounder. I love reading a lot specially fiction related to science and mythology. I love cooking specially the typical Bengali cuisines. And I love traveling places.
MY FAMILY: I belong from a middle class family with Middle class budget bound family is full of tradition and culture which I respect from my heart but what I faced that charity begins from home itself. My present family consists of my father, and my two younger sisters. One of which is a student at Extreme Marital Arts and learning Kung fu there. Another one joined Gurucharan College this month with honours in Anthropology. My father works as a Government employee in PHE (Public Health Engineering department).
Mission Statement: My mother died of lung cancer and from that time I realized what's the position of this world when it comes to cancer. I have always wanted to help out people but then that thought came that doctor can help them but now for this organization I came to know more about how else we can break this taboo.
Email: debashreepurkayastha2@gmail.com
Twitter: @Debashreepurka2
Instagram: @debashreepurkayastha_96
Country of origin: Silchar, Assam, India