Mysuru, May 2 -- R.N. Thanya and S. Dhanush, the joint toppers from Mysuru in SSLC exams, share a common aim - to become doctors and serve the needy.

Thanya, a student of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (BVB) School, Vijayanagar in the city, credited her success to her teachers and parents and thanked them all.

"My aim is to become a Cardiologist and want to focus on cracking National Eligibility-Cum-Entrance Test (NEET) to pursue medicine," said Thanya, sharing about her future plans, which she has held on to since her childhood.

She is the daughter of R.H.Narayan Swamy, a bank employee and H.M. Maheshwari couple, residents of Vijayanagar.

Narayan Swamy said, "Despite financial hardships, we ensured that our daughter studied in BVB school fro...