About Dhriti Maloo:
Dhriti is a 13-year-old girl from a small town, Warora, in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, India. She is passionate about Rubik’s cubes and has been learning and solving Rubik’s cubes since the age of 1. She likes going to school and she is studying in class 9th. She enjoys badminton and is learning the Tabla instrument. She lives with her parents and her little sister.
What are Dhriti Maloo’s some of the greatest milestones in her life journey?
She started learning to play ‘Tabla’ at the age of 7 and till now she has completed 4th level exams conducted by Akhil Bhartiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal, Mumbai. She would always get excited by seeing the colors of Rubik’s cube, but she started learning to solve cubes at the age of 10 and, within a short time, she entered the Indian Cube Association’s Rubik’s cube competition in Mumbai and came in the first 15 children from more than 800 participants. She was a big cube trophy winner of the prestigious CFI Competition held in September 2021 and was selected as a mentor for CFI. She has a good collection of 50 different cubes, which gives her a good smile on her face when she scrambles them and tries to solve them and break her own records. She launched her app ‘Cube Pathshala with Dhriti’ in February 2021, where she recorded and edited the video of the cubes tutorial successfully. She has completed a certificate course in graphic video editing from Caba Innovation, Delhi, in 2021.
Her greatest milestone is that she can plot 4 lowercase alphabets on the face of a 7*7Rubik cube, and for that she needs 7cubes to plot all 26 alphabets a-z in just 12 minutes.
What are the lessons from the challenges she has faced and how did she overcome them?
It was difficult to find a mentor in her small town who could teach her Rubik’s cubes. Then she found Miss. Jummana, and she learned the basics of cube from her. Later, she started to collect more cubes, and the big challenge was how to solve it because she had seen all those cubes for the very first time. The Rubik’s cubes are very delicate and sometimes break, and it was difficult to find good quality cubes as they were not available in her home town. The 7*7 Rubik’s cube was the toughest one to learn, and plotting 4 alphabets on a 7*7 is quite challenging.
Mention some of the values she lives by and would advise others to do the same…
She is learning new things and would advise others to always learn to explore. Her father says there is no option for hard work and she agrees with it. Her mother advises her to always enjoy what she does, and she advises others to do the same; there is fun everywhere. Live with positivity and hard work.
She is deeply inspired by her grandparents. Because of their motivation, she tried and explored herself in many fields. She had to match the boys’ strength when playing tabla. Their motivation is to try new things, never quit, and try until you succeed. Whatever the challenges, she never quits and enjoys solving and facing all the difficulties.
