Malkangiri: He will probably never need to use a calculator. Although, he is completely illiterate and knows nothing except for one to hundred, this labourer spits outs sums and maths problems like rhymes.
Ask him to solve any complicated mathematics and geometry questions and he is sure to leave you dumbfounded with the answer with much ease as fast as a calculator. He is so for that he is fondly called as the ‘Moving Calculator’ among his friends and acquaintances in his locality.
Meet Sushil Kumar Biswas, of MV- 1 area of Malkangiri district, a daily wager in profession but a mathematician by heart, mind and soul as he claims himself.
This wonder man leaves everyone by surprise. No one believes that he works as a daily wager to earn a livelihood and has no education. But, that’s the truth. He has not even stepped into a primary school.
His parents were daily wagers and he too has been doing the same all these years. However, his special gift makes him the star of the locality.
Sushil’s extraordinary talent has endears him to his villagers, especially school students, and those of neighbouring villages. After school hours and holidays, children are seen sitting around him, asking him varieties of mathematics questions to solve for them. And Sushil too never disappoints them. He makes them understand all the problems.
“Sitting around children and answering their questions gives me immense pleasure. It gives me satisfaction when I see their pale faces turn radiant after knowing the solution to their problems,” says Sushil.
“I don’t do the calculations manually, but see the numbers in my mind,” Sushil says.
The engineers of the district have also recognised his prowess. Very often they take help of Sushil. He draws the design of houses impeccably without taking any help of modern equipments and makes the engineer’s job simpler.
For his unusual talent, he laps praises not only from his family members and villagers but also from the residents of Malkangiri district.
“Sushil has been good with numbers since he was young,” his brother said adding that even when’s he was young, he would come up with answers to hard and complicated questions. He is considered a ‘Genius’ in our area, he is God-gifted, he added.
A local said he would have been the smartest man in the world if he had ever got a chance to go to school in his younger days. Even at the age of social media, his talent is yet to be recognised.
The very fact that he is able to do such calculations faster than calculator being illiterate is enough to understand the ability he has, a senior local said adding the administration should utilise Sushil’s talent to its best possible ways. He will bring laurels for the country some day.
PNN
