Meet Varshil Shah, the Gujarat state board topper who chose to be a monk

After scoring 99.9 percentile in Gujarat State Board Class XII, Shah attained monkhood on Thursday

If you have passed your higher secondary exam with an exceptionally good score, your next goal would most likely be cracking a competitive exam and making it to one of the best colleges for a higher course. Indeed, you would be looking forward to a promising career ahead.

But 17-year-old Varshil Shah, who topped the commerce stream class XII exam of the Gujarat state board by scoring 99.9 percentile, had different plans. He surprised many by his decision to renounce everything normal by conventional standards and become a Jain monk. But this rather odd choice for a 21st century teenager