India, Aug. 4 -- A New York-based techie has caught the internet's attention after sharing why he believes the best thing that ever happened to him was his father's failure in the IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).

Taking to X, Akash Sampurnanand Pandey, a New York-based software engineer and IIT BHU alumnus, recalled how his father travelled nearly 200 km by hitchhiking with just Rs.10 in his pocket to reach the IIT JEE examination centre in the summer of 1980.

"The best thing that ever happened to me was my father failing the IIT JEE," Akash wrote in the X post.

"In the summer of 1980, he hitchhiked 200 km with 10 rupees in his pocket to reach the exam center. He had learned what JEE was just 6 months ago and sat it cold because h...