Triple treat: meet the family who graduated with their PhDs on the same day
On the morning of Nov 29 inside Dewan Tunku Canselor at Universiti Malaya (UM), three members of the same family walked across the stage in the same session to receive their PhD scrolls from the chancellor of the university, Perak Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah.
It seemed like the rare Malaysian academic fairytale: two brothers and a sister-in-law, all earning their doctorates together. But behind that moment were years marked by illness, financial strain, a newborn, endless late nights, and the kind of resilience that comes only from deep family conviction.
“We didn’t even have time to prepare for our graduation,” Vinesh Raj told FMT Lifestyle. “Everything was chaotic, haywire. It was just like, ‘Oh, we’re here.’”
Vinesh and his older brother Vishnu were raised in a modest government-servant household; their parents spent decades in rental…
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