Pune lad Aditya Deshpande (12) has proved his skills on the pianoforte by winning top honours at the Musiquest national piano festival 2011 held in Pune last November. Musiquest is an all-India piano talent discovery contest presented in an informal and friendly workshop/masterclass format, offering participants the opportunity not only of public performance, but of […]
Maya Devipujak (18), a dyslexic girl from a BPL (below poverty line) family, has become a celebrity in Mehsana (pop. 184,133), Gujarat. She was a member of the Indian floor hockey (a seven-a-side hockey played on basketball courts with a puck instead of ball) team which bagged the gold medal in the 10th Special
Ahmedabad-based Maana Patel (13) has set new records in the 50 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres backstroke events at the 67th Senior National Aquatics Championship staged in Trivandrum on November 20-24, and more recently at the School Games Federation of India-sponsored National School Games held in Pune from December 10-15. She bagged six gold medals […]
Abhinav Menon (17), a class XII student of the Dubai International Academy (DIA, estb. 2005), bagged a silver medal in the 21st International Philosophy Olympiad staged in Odense, Denmark from May 16-19. The Olympiad attracted 90 high school students from 40 countries who wrote essays on philosophical themes during a time window of four hours. […]
A 14-member team of Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore (KCT, estb.1984) bagged the communication prize (€2,000) in the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge (MEBC) international competition, in which technical universities from 21 countries participated. This year’s MEBC version 9.0 held in Monaco on July 6-9 required participating teams to build sustainable boats within […]
India’s women’s boxing star Nikhat Zareen (26) who won a gold medal in the lightweight category at the Commonwealth Games which concluded in Birmingham on August 8, and was crowned world champ at the International Boxing Association (IBA) Women’s World Boxing Championships held in Istanbul three months earlier, is not resting on her […]
Although he has just entered his first teenage year, Karnav Rastogi (13), a class VIII student of Mumbai’s top-ranked R.N. Podar School, has already written four paperback novels and three e-graphic books titled Kartik and Mixie featuring a ten-year-old boy and walking-talking robot.
Acknowledged as India’s ‘youngest fiction writer’ by India Book of Records […]
Chennai-based teenage chess prodigy and GM (grand master) R. Praggnanandhaa (aka RP) created history on February 22 by besting Norway’s five-time reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in 39 moves at the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour’s Airthings Masters online tournament. Only two other Indians — Viswanathan Anand and Pentala Harikrishna — have achieved this […]
With incidents of religious, caste and communal violence rising countrywide, protest voices of the post-millennial generation are becoming louder. A case in point is Gurugram-based Riaan Kumar (18) who is determined “to promote inter-faith communal harmony through enlightenment and public policy.”
A class XII arts student of the high-ranked The Shri Ram School, Aravalli, […]
A South-Eastern Railway employee and trainee at Bengaluru’s world-class Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy (PPBA), Mithun Manjunath is making waves on the international badminton circuit.
In the Super Series 100 tournament of the Badminton World Federation staged in Orleans (France) in April, this 23-year-old, ranked #74 internationally, scored a stunning victory over world #22 Hans-Kristian […]
Social justice warrior Anoushka Jolly (13) was the youngest contestant to pitch her entrepreneurial idea Kavach (‘shield’ in Hindi), an anti-bullying app with a pre-revenue valuation of Rs.50 lakh, to investors on the popular business reality show Shark Tank India — the India edition of the eponymous American show — and win funding […]
Bengaluru-based Avani Prashanth (15) recently bested India’s top professional and amateur women golfers to qualify for the 19th Asian Games 2022 scheduled to be held in Hangzhou (China) later this year.
A natural on the greens who started to swing the club at age four, Avani is the highest ranked (#116) Indian among amateur […]
Shravan Kumaran (14) and his younger sibling Sanjay (12), promoters of Chennai-based mobile applications company GoDimensions Pvt. Ltd (regd. 2011), are surely India’s youngest and most famous company directors.
Class IX and VII students of Chennai’s highly rated Vael’s Billabong-High International School, they have developed seven applications for Apple and three for the Google Android playstore, […]
Junior Picasso to his friends and family, Radhey Patel (11), a class VI student of the Gurgaon-based Scottish High International School, will be moving to the UK in July this year to continue his studies in one of three British public schools, which have offered him art scholarships. Merchant Taylors, Aldenham, and The John Lyon […]
KHANAK JOSHI is an eight year old who has achieved early fame for singing a duet with renowned composer and playback singer Shankar Mahadevan. Raised in Haridwar (Uttar Pradesh) but currently based in Bangalore, this music prodigy was invited to sing a solo at the National Bal Kala Utsav, 2010, when she was only four […]
Chennai-based Anagha Sethuraman (13) is the season VI National Classmate Spell Bee 2014 champion, following her victory in the final round of the all-India competition staged in Mumbai on March 8-9. After rigorous elimination rounds at the city and state levels, this teen bested 250,000 students from 750 schools in 27 cities to bag a […]
INDIA’S FIRST FEMALE karting enthusiast Mira Erda (14) is blazing a trail on national and international motor racing circuits. Winner of five championships since she debuted in 2010, this Vadodara-based teen who graduated to the junior class reserved for karters in the 14-18 age group ” at age 12, is set to race in the […]
Contrary to the popular belief that all killer apps flooding internet space are invented by little wonders doing their thing in metropolitan India, Abhik Saha, the 13-year-old promoter-CEO of Arnabhik Corp (estb. 2014), operates out of Chalsa, a small town in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal.
A class IX student of the CISCE-affiliated Don Bosco […]
In a country where littering and indifference to civic cleanliness is a national malaise, Jashrit Dubey (14), a class IX student of the Gujarati-medium state board-affiliated Hiramani School, Ahmedabad, has assumed the burden of Mahatma Gandhi’s mission of maintaining clean and sanitary local environments, besides stirring fellow students into action. “The journey of a thousand miles […]
Four young aspiring scientists — Rochan Avlur (13), Ritwik Jaisimha (12), Nayonika Nair (10) and Sidharth Santhosh (13), students of the Bangalore-based Delhi Public School (East) and Deen’s Academy — who call themselves SAP MoonWalkers 4.0, were finalists at the First Lego League (FLL) Open European Championships held in Mannheim, Germany from June 6-9. […]
Three youths of modest socio-economic backgrounds have developed a new device named Oxy-Con — a non-invasive ventilator — which gives the medical practitioners’ fraternity an option to control oxygen supply administered to patients. The inventors of Oxy-Con are Nilanjan Ghosh (21), Sheikh Akram Ali (22) and Dipayan Jash (21), all final year electronics and communications students at […]
Unlike most girls her age, Mahalakshmi Mugunthakumar (14) doesn’t hang out with friends, watch movies or play outdoor games. She is content spending time honing her skills in the mind game of chess, which has won her an impressive string of national and international titles.
Recently (April), this class X student of Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary […]
Tiny tot Shraddha Somanath (5), a kindergartener of Greenwood High International School, Bangalore, has become a celebrity in her school and beyond, by bagging a silver medal at the Asian Schools Chess Championship held between August 30-September 6, in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka. Shraddha was the runner-up in the Classical Chess and Blitz categories in […]
Even as the London Olympics 2012 are about to begin, Ankita Sehgal (17), a class XI student of Delhi’s Ahlcon International School, is preparing for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics 2016. In January this year, she qualified for inclusion in the national squad for the 10-metre rifle shooting event. “Henceforth, in all international championships […]
A class XII student of the CBSE-affiliated L’ecole du Monde, Lucknow, Swapnil Kumar (17) is back home with a haul of gold and bronze medals in the weapon and full contact categories of the 3D World Kung Fu Championship, staged by the European Kung Fu Federation in Beijing between July 25-30. Swapnil’s achievement is specially […]
AN ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING graduate and business management student of Somaiya Vidyavihar (University), Mumbai, Gaurang Shetty heads the university’s Research Innovation Incubation Design Labs (RiiDL), established in 2010 to promote and facilitate innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.
The only child of Ratnagar and Geeta Shetty, a former canteen manager of Premier Automobiles Ltd, and a private tutor, Gaurang’s […]
Barely into his teens, Vadodara-based endurance cyclist Shaunak Gaikwad (13) successfully completed a 200 km ride in mid-July ” supervised by marshals of The Cycling Club, Baroda ” in 12 hours, to be crowned Gujarat’s youngest randonneur for 2014. The feat qualifies him to join the exclusive club of Audax India Randonneurs, a national organisation […]
Jaipur-based Mohit Parikh’s debut young adult novel Manan was published by Harper Collins in October 2014. Manan is set in the summer of 1998 in an anonymous sleepy Indian town slowly awakening to new information and communications technology (ICT), and revolves around the eponymous 15-year-old and his difficult adolescence, the tyranny of family relationships, authoritarian […]
Sanket Tomar (15) captained the Delhi state five-member tennis team to victory at the 60th National School Lawn Tennis Under-17 Boys Championship 2014-15, held in Gulbarga (Karnataka) between January 7-11. Also a member of the winning Delhi squad which bagged the Under-14 nationals in 2013-14, this class IX student of Venkateshwar International School (VIS), Dwarka […]
Hosur (Tamil Nadu)-based teenage water conservation activist Vibish Kashyap Balaji (14) is the new star ambassador of Project Sunlight, a CSR (corporate social responsibility) initiative of the Mumbai-based consumer products behemoth Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL, annual revenue: Rs.1413,847 crore). Launched in 2013, the objective of Project Sunlight is to œmake sustainable living desirable and achievable […]
Self-taught ethical hacker Shubham Singh (21) has upgraded the Keystone Cops image of the Mumbai police. Now working closely with the commercial capital’s cops in cybercrime, kidnapping and bank fraud cases, he recently assisted the police to arrest a drug baron.
Three years ago when my Facebook account was hacked, I used information obtained from YouTube […]
In early June, two teams from Delhi Public School International, Pushp Vihar (Delhi) — comprising Ahaan Jain, Ayaan Khoshal, Raghav Tiwari and Shiv Verma (class VI), and Vansha Gupta and Mohammed Ismail (class VII) — were ranked #2 and #3 in separate categories in version 7.0 of the annual International Robotics Competition (IRC), conducted in […]
Bangalore-based Pavan Chitta and Guru Sarjith Senthil — class XI students of the Cambridge International Examinations (UK)-affiliated Greenwood High International School — were conferred Cambridge Outstanding Learners’ Award certificates for topping CIE’s IGCSE (class X) examination in India. The awards were declared in November. Apart from trophies and medals, Pavan and Guru have also […]
Karate kid Sukanya Sen (10), a class V student of Kolkata’s top-ranked Modern High School for Girls, is one of a growing crop of promising female practitioners of this mentally and physically demanding martial art. Last October, she won the sub-junior kumite — combat with a live opponent — title at the 21st International Sports […]
Despite being born with only 10 percent vision, Delhi-based Rakshit Malik (18) was ranked #3 nationally (in the physically challenged category) in the class XII school-leaving examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) which has 17,000 affiliated schools countrywide. CBSE’s pan-India results were declared on May 21. This humanities student of Amity International […]
A second year civil engineering student of the School of Engineering and Technology of Sharda University (Greater Noida), Jinnat Sebarin (20) made her debut as a novelist in early February with Not Very Far published by Delhi-based Authors Ink Publications. This novel is now in its fourth edition since its release six months ago. Not […]
Hridey Sahgal, a class XII student of The International School Bangalore (TISB) — ranked among India’s Top 5 international day-cum-boarding schools in the EW India School Rankings 2016 — has been selected for the Ashoka Youth Ventures programme initiated last September by the US-based Ashoka Innovators for the Public (formerly Ashoka Foundation), for organising the […]
Against the backdrop of India’s poor representation in international equestrian events (except for Inderjeet Singh Lamba’s participation in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics), if Noida-based Raunaq Anand (16) is given the encouragement and support he deserves, India can expect him to bring home an equestrian Olympic medal in the near future. This skilled horseman finished the […]
Extra-curricular writing is the favourite pastime of Bangalore-based Karun Divij Balachandar (16). On January 13, his debut 65-page novel The Teenager’s Guide to the Universe (Notion Press, Chennai) which explores the mysteries surrounding the cosmos, was released at the CIE (UK)-affiliated Trio World Academy, Bangalore where he is a class XI student. Renowned astronomer and […]
Navaneeth V. Ganesh (22), a final year M.Tech student of VIT (Vellore Institute of Technology) University, was adjudged the youngest Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) in India last July by Toastmasters International (TMI, estb.1924), a California-based non-profit which operates 15,900 TMI clubs worldwide with an aggregate membership of 345,000. The prime objectives of TMI are […]
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