Studying in Ravenshaw Collegiate School
Nagabhusan was a precocious student. After his early years in Kalahandi, the family moved to Cuttack and he attended Ravenshaw Collegiate School. After completing a Higher Secondary Certificate diploma he entered Indian Institute of Technology in Kaharagpur, West Bengal. His aptitude in engineering was rerflected through his meditative experimentation and total immersion in the matter of interest.
Ravenshaw Collegiate School
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
View from the Playground
Ravenshaw Collegiate School is the oldest High School in Odisha,
established in 1851. Many well-known personaities of Orissa have been educated through the school. A statue of Nataji Subhas Chandra Bose graces the front courtyard lately.
Nagabhusan attended the Collegiate school from 1955 to 1962. Besides his studies, he initiated the activity of School Science Club in 1960 with the help of the Science teacher late Sri Debendranath Kar. The organizer of this memorial site, a year junior to him, met him through the Science Club activities spending countless hours after school in setting up experiments using everyday objects.
Nagabhusan was a quiet student. They had healthy competition in
the class. Late Dr Rabindranath Rath fondly remembered their early age chess games. Apparently Nagabhusan knew all the chess moves and taught others. Dr Rath also passed away out in 2014 through sickness.
Nagabhusan qualified to be admitted to the Indian Institute of Technology through their all-India entrance examination. He joined the institution at Kharagpur in the summer of 1962.