Dr Tasaduk Hussain Itoo, 28 years old, is a native of Poshkreri Village from South Kashmir’s Anantnag District. He belongs to a nuclear family with his father, mother and two siblings. He is the elder one in the family. Hailing from a Middle Class family, his father Mohd Yousuf Itoo is a businessman and mother, a housewife. Poshkreri Village is famous for Apple orchards and gives a serene beauty to nature. It forms a part of famous tourist resort, the Apple Valley through which tourists usually pave their way towards Pahalgam.
Born from a family with humble background, Dr Tasaduk started his initial schooling in a local school in his village at the age of 5. Then he moved to Iqra English Medium High School Srigufwara Anantnag, where he passed his 8th Standard. For his further studies, he then moved to town and passed his 12th class from Public Senior Secondary School Bijbehara Anantnag. After this Dr Tasaduk got admission in Government Degree College Boys Anantnag, from where he completed his Bachelor of Science(B. Sc) degree with medical subjects in 2010. It was his dream since childhood to become a doctor. In 2011, Dr Tasaduk appeared in Jammu and Kashmir Common Entrance Test(JKCET) conducted by JK Board of Professional Entrance Examination(JKBOPEE) and became the first student from his village to crack MBBS entrance. He is currently working as a Resident medical doctor in Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences and Hospital Jammu.
Besides being a doctor by proffession, Dr Tasaduk wears many hats. He also works as a Motivational Speakor, Life Coach, Activist, Columnist, Teacher and Educator at Unacademy, India’s largest online education platform. Dr Tasaduk has been doing great service to the society as a Social Activist. He is also a cordial member of Jammu & Kashmir RTI Movement and has been working to ensure accountability and transparency through the application of RTI Act. He has attended many workshops on RTI and bagged certificates of appreciation.
Besides this Dr. Tasaduk is also a prominent columnist. His write ups regularly come up in leading newspapers of J & K like Greater Kashmir, Rising Kashmir, Daily Excelsior, Kashmir Monitor, Kashmir Images, Kashmir Horizon, Kashmir Pen including others. Being a prolific writer, Dr Tasaduk writes on various issues of public concern including social issues, education issues, medical issues, environmental issues, political issues and others.Till now he has around hundred articles published and his writings are being acknowledged and responded immensely around the globe. He is being invited to and has attended many conferences at state level. Since childhood Dr. Tasaduk has been a great Public Speakor. He used to deliver guest lectures where invited. Besides this, he used to participate in various seminars and functions and has won many amazing prizes.
Dr. Tasaduk also works as an Educator on India’s top most learning platform, so called Unacademy. Unacademy is ranking among the world’s top most online learning platforms. Recently he was selected as one of the Top Educators 2017 on the platform and bagged Top Educator 2017 Award. He has thousands of learners and students around the globe on the platform and his courses are viewed with huge popularity. His courses have been listed among top ten courses great courses on Unacademy along with the courses of Dr Kiran Bedi, Honourable Governor of Puducherry and Dr Roman Saini, Ex-IAS officer, Co-founder and Chief educator of Unacademy. Being a motivational speaker, Dr. Tasaduk provides Motivational counseling to youth both in gatherings and at individual level. He is inspired by the poetry and Philosophy of Dr Allama Iqbal and is usually providing Motivational talks in the light of Allama Iqbal’s manual of success . He believes that Allama Iqbal was a revolutionary poet and his poetry is an iconic inspiration to youth to lead in their careers and life.
Dr. Tasaduk is a good anchoring journalist as well. Being sensitive towards drug addiction issues that is more common in youth in current times, he has been writing constantly on such issues.He believes in practical ways of addressing these issues. Recently he interviewed a Hollywood Actor namely Chris Levine about Steroid Abuse. Chris Levine has been a victim of Steroid Abuse in his late teens/early twenties and after 10 years he came up with a movie titled “Anabolic Life” highlighting his battle with body image issue and thrusting into a world of steroids and self destruction. The interview gets amazing response at world level. Whole Anabolic Life team appreciated it and shared it to create awareness regarding Steroid Abuse at global level. One of the story from Hollywood Industry reads “Our lead Actor Chris Levine who also wrote the original screenplay ,was interviewed by a well- known doctor in India about Steroids, his struggle with them and how it turned into the movie Anabolic Life”. Dr.Tasaduk also likes reading books, writing, cooking, eating delicious foods and playing games mostly cricket. He likes doing commentary in English and has been a commentrator in tournaments being organized at local level with huge audience. Dr Tasaduk is an iconic inspiration to youth. He believes that there is no dearth of talent in Kashmir and it is need of the hour to explore the same. He believes that firm determination, hard work, passion, enthusiasm and competence and confidence are the keys to success in any field.