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Meet Sarthak Agarwal, Meme Star
Brut India
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4/18/2025
Remember Sarthak Agarwal, who featured in several viral memes after topping the CBSE exams in 2014? He’s now got the 17th rank in UPSC exams. He told Brut his secrets, and also weighed in on his favourite memes!
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Too many of my cousins, too many of my friends have said to me the same thing, that because
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of you we got scolded and I'm very sorry to everybody.
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I don't know if there's any secret or any recipe for my success or my success.
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I think one thing that might have been important is that I think very carefully about whatever
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I'm doing before jumping into it, trying to understand what is my motivation, what are
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my strengths, what are my weaknesses and how I can contextualize everything to what is
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needed.
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But, I mean, there's also a fair component of luck and a lot of other things involved
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that I do not want to understate having done well in these exams.
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I'm a bit embarrassed to admit, but I was kind of consistently good in the schools as
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well.
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I mean, I was always very interested in academics.
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More marks gets you more opportunities.
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It gets you into better colleges and so on.
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But at the same time, as we move along, I've also noticed myself that the importance of
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marks has consistently declined.
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For instance, in college, I was hardly concerned about whether I was doing well or not.
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But the main priority was to develop a good friend circle, good social networks, take
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part in a lot of extracurricular activities that help you build your personality.
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I didn't give it as much time as some other candidates were lucky to invest in it.
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I mean, I also didn't prepare any notes.
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I didn't have any kind of study groups.
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I wasn't part of those environments just because of choice.
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My strategy was just to gobble up as much news as I could get, not be restricted to
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any newspaper, any magazine.
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It was very much focused around news, around current affairs.
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My target now, and I'm working actively towards it, is how to prepare myself to be able to
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do the most I can for development in public service.
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And that's where the real challenge lies.
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So I want to be a person of value, somebody who can make a difference.
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Not just somebody who succeeded in some exams, because again, lots of people do that, doesn't
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make a difference to India.
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This was actually true.
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I did go to the library a lot of times during my lunch break because I enjoyed it.
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This very well fits into the stereotype that was propounded around me.
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So again, it was very funny, but not true.
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Some of them also have gifted me, I don't know, I mean, framed memes or something.
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I have one on my desk.
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I can show you over here.
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It goes like this.
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It talks about Lifebuoy and how it doesn't even kill as many germs as my marks.
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So I thought it was very funny.
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