Brothers Mritul (13) and Sudhay Senthilkkumar (15) — class VIII and X students of Coimbatore’s CBSE-affiliated Yuva Bharati Public School (YBPS) — recently dived into an elite league of long distance swimmers and the record books of five global organisations.
Sudhay was feted for “longest distance covered (13.35 km) using medley swimming technique in five hours” […]
Bangalore-based child education crusader Nikhiya Shamsher (15) is the India winner of the Diana Legacy Award — an accolade of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Charity Fund (estb.1997). This special award acknowledges outstanding young leaders for community service around the world. Nikhiya was one of 20 young leaders selected from among 12,000 nominated from […]
Eleven-year-old Agastya Jaiswal set a record as the youngest student to clear the class XII school-leaving exam of the Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education with an average score of 63 percent. Three years ago, Hyderabad-based Agastya successfully completed the state’s class X board exam with a 7.5 grade point average. This wunderkind is just […]
A class VII student of Kolkata’s Mahadevi Birla World Academy, Spriha Debnath (12) won the table tennis singles crown at the Netaji Subhas State Games organised by the Bengal Olympic Association quadrennially in Kolkata, early this year (January).
The preteen defeated a 15-year-old rival in the finals and also won runners-up medals in the doubles […]
Team Debate India comprising Elakiya Ananthakrishnan and Supriya Suresh (P.S. Senior Secondary, Mylapore, Chennai), Sampada Venkatesh, (National Public School, Indiranagar, Bangalore) and Shubhankar Kashyap, (Indirapuram Public School, Ghaziabad) were recently crowned Novice champions of the Asia World Schools Debating Championship (AWSDC) 2017 staged at the Anglo Singapore International School, Bangkok (Thailand) during July 24-28. Additionally, […]
At the Hero Asian Champions Tournament 2021 in Dhaka last December, India’s national men’s hockey team goalie Naib Subedar Suraj Karkera (26) was conferred the ‘best goalkeeper’ award after Team India beat arch-rivals Pakistan 4-3 to win the bronze medal.
A boy wonder who took naturally to field hockey when he was only nine, […]
Delhi-based computer science enthusiast and young author Krish Mittal (17) entered the International Book of Records last November (2021) for becoming the ‘youngest writer of an educational book’ Let’s learn C — self-published on Amazon in September 2020.
That’s not all. Earlier in the summer of the pandemic year 2020, this class XII student […]
Bangalore-based Shalini Menon (14) is still savouring the sweet taste of success after she was adjudged best pianist (Grade V) in India by the blue-chip Trinity College of Music, London late last year (October 2005). The Trinity College of Music (TCM), is an apex level music school which offers training in western classical and […]
Blending the oriental and occidental cultures, young Gauri’s forte lies in playing Indian Classical Music on her piano. Gauri Mishra, who had won the National Award from President Ram Nath Kovind (Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya BAL Puraskar) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2020 as the youngest pianist of India, is the only pianist […]
Unlike most young children who like being told stories by their parents, Ahmedabad-based Kuvam Gupta (7) insists on narrating stories to his parents! And, these stories have culminated in the release of his first book titled Elpu and his Friends published by Notion Press, a self-publishing platform, last December. Thus far, 410 copies of the […]
Voices raised against gender prejudice and inequality are growing louder and stronger around the country. Especially of Delhi-based social activist Divya Sijwali (17), who is determined to “advocate acceptance of marginalised communities and focus on providing employment to acid attack victims and members of the LGBTQIA+ community”.
A class XI student of Delhi’s high-ranked Tagore International […]
A foot fracture opened up golf as a potential career option for Suchitra Ramesh (13), a class VII student of Bangalore’s Greenwood High School. “In 2006, I fractured my right heel and the doctor prescribed playing golf to hasten the healing process. Once I started playing, I liked the sport so much that I couldn’t […]
He manages the king’s horses and men on the 1,500-year-old board of 64 squares with consummate ease. Young Diptayan Ghosh (14), a class IX student of South Point School, Kolkata is well on his way to becoming a name to be reckoned with in the world of chess. This winner of the Under-10 Asian […]
Rashi Singhal (24) is founder-director of Vision Mission Foundation (VMF, estb. 2010), a Noida (Delhi NCR)-based NGO which offers screening, counselling and primary services to people afflicted with diabetes. Over the past two years, VMF has screened 35,000 people for diabetes — a condition affecting 51 million Indians according to the World Health Organisation — […]
Within nine days of American-Indian Snigdha Nandipati making history by winning the 85th edition of the annual national Scripps Spelling Bee 2012 contest staged in May in Washington DC, USA — in which Americans of Indian origin have bagged first rank for five years consecutively — Bangalore-based Samvida Venkatesh (15) was crowned national champion in […]
The first step for him was to apply online for the Intel-sponsored IRIS (Initiative for Research & Innovation in Science) fair in August 2011. Among the applications, 100 well-researched project proposals were selected for entry and evaluation at the Intel ISEF (International Science and Engineering Fair) held between May 13-18 in Pittsburgh, USA. […]
Pune-based Peeyush Shah (14), a student of the city’s Vidya Bhavan School, has earned an entry in the Limca Book of Records 2011 for accumulating 12,000 erasers of all types, shapes and sizes. “I now want an entry into the Guinness World Records. But for that to happen, I have to break the record of a […]
Even as an Indian manned mission to the Moon remains a distant dream, a small town in Maharashtra has already entered the space age. Shreya Singh (12), a pre-teen resident of Nagothane — a tiny village 100 km from Mumbai, the country’s commercial capital — was awarded top honours in the International Space Settlement Contest […]
A 13-year-old with 55 tennis titles to her credit, Ahmedabad-based Zeel Desai walks, talks and slogs tennis. Zeel is just back from Mumbai after winning the Under-14 singles on May 18 which comes on the back of a grand double in the previous week — bagging the singles and doubles titles in the ATF Asian […]
Bangalore-based Ronita Mookerji (26) is a danseuse with a difference. An alumna of Attakkalari — a performing arts charitable trust — she was the only Indian dancer to be selected for Dance Box’s choreographic residency ‘Kobe-Maizuru Exchange Programme’ convened last year in Japan. The exchange programme is an initiative of the Imperial Japanese government to […]
Writing a book is a long, tedious process meant for grown-ups but Mumbai lad Maitreya Wagh is already an author, at age 14. His debut fiction novel titled Investigations Redefined: The Family Fork (Power Publishers, Rs.299) a crime and suspense thriller — released at Crossword book store, Grant Road, Mumbai on January 28 — is […]
Like other children his age, Vishal Anand (7) loves ice cream and chocolate, and thrills to running, skating and cycling. The difference is, he is autistic. But in medical parlance Vishal is an autistic ‘savant’, an inarticulate individual gifted with innate knowledge. According to American psychiatrist Dr. Darold Treffert, autistic savants have prodigious memory and […]
Young Noida-based social activist-entrepreneur Satyam Mehta (16) was among 200 global citizens conferred the prestigious Diana Award 2021 on July 1, at a specially organised online felicitation ceremony. The Diana Award was initiated by the British government in 1999 in memory of Princess Diana of Wales (1961-1997) to acknowledge outstanding young leaders worldwide for initiating […]
Back in Ahmedabad from the Tokyo Olympics — Maana Patel (21) — India’s 100m backstroke swimming hope who didn’t make it to the finals or the podium, believes she is richer for the experience and is determined to give a better account of herself in future aquatic championships.
“The quality of training and coaching facilities […]
Aarya Sarda, a ten-year-old youngster from Nashik, is the proud recipient of the prestigious CCRT (Centre for Cultural Resources and Training) Cultural Talent Search Scholarship Scheme 2013-14 of the Union ministry of culture. The scholarships are annually awarded to outstanding performing arts exponents between 10-14 years of age. A class VI student of the Rasbihari […]
Gayathri Muthukumar (17), a class XII student of the National Public School, Indiranagar, Bangalore, is the newly crowned Season Seven champion of the Indian National Brain Bee 2014 — an all-India competition open to class XI students. Launched by the Mumbai-based Seven Hills Hospitals, the objective of this annual competition is to inspire youth […]
THE LATEST HONOUR bestowed upon the seven-year-old music prodigy Taksheel Buddhadeo is an entry into the India Book of Records for participation in 200 on-air broadcast (radio, television) programmes — the highest number by any school student in India.
Taksheel has been practicing Indian classical music and the harmonium from the time he was three. Continuous […]
Arjit Kansal (16), a class XI science student of Delhi’s Maharaja Agrasen School, Pitampura, is the first Indian national to win a Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship, staged annually for the past 14 years. In the 2014 championship held in Disneyland, California, from July 27-30, Arjit bested 123 finalists from 41 countries in the PowerPoint […]
‘I walk ahead, seeing nothing, but nothingness… dense fog’ is the sum and substance of a haiku — a Japanese form of poetry which expresses maximum emotion in minimum words — which bagged Vadodara-based Taha Memon (17) the Katha Grand Prize for creative writing in the senior category (class VIII-XII) of the National Bal Katha […]
Accolades are raining on Arkya Chatterjee (18), a student of south Kolkata’s Vivekananda School, who almost maxed CISCE’s class XII Indian School Certificate board examination (results were declared in May) with a record average of 99.75 percent.
Nor is this astonishing average the sum of his achievements. In July, Arkya was awarded rank 288 in the […]
While autonomous (driver-less) automobile technology is being tried and tested worldwide, a 13-member team from India’s premier Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kharagpur is making waves nationwide with its ground-breaking dual-mode (manual + autonomous) bicycle.
Kruti shah (21) hit the headlines in the Mumbai media by topping the All-India Chartered Accountancy (CA) final exams 2013, held in May. A commerce graduate of Narsee Monjee College, Kruti also top-scored in the first and second level CA exams — CPT (Common Proficiency Test) and IPCC (Intermediate Professional Competency Course). Over 27,556 […]
Astrophile class V student of Kolkata’s Indus Valley World School, Reyansh Das (10) is the latest to join the country’s distinguished league of young authors of the pandemic era. On June 8, this precocious pre-teen launched his debut e-book Our Universe: The Past, The Present, The Future on Kindle (Rs.100).
Within five months of being adjudged India champion of the Asia Young Designer Award (AYDA) Contest 2020 held virtually early this year, Bengaluru-based architect Neha Harish (24) has been adjudged Young Sustainable Designer 2020 (architecture) of Asia in a transnational competition organised by Osaka (Japan)-based Nippon Paint Holdings Co.
Kairav Sanghvi (12), a class VII student of Ahmedabad’s highly-ranked St. Kabir School, is among a growing league of promising practitioners of Karate, the mentally and physically demanding Japanese martial art. Last month (June), he was crowned e-Kata champion in the Under-14 category of the Ahmedabad-based International Shotokan Karate United (ISKU) online […]
Although she is yet only a class III student of the Presidium School, Delhi, Abhijita Gupt (8) is the author of two books. Her first published last September, was a prose and poetry volume titled Happiness All Around and her second, a non-fiction book We Will Surely Sustain was published in February this […]
Dr. Krati Jain (25) has the unique distinction of becoming the first woman medical graduate of the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Medical College, Indore (estb.1878) to win 13 gold medals for outstanding performance in the MBBS final exam. The medals and awards were conferred on her in mid-February this year at an […]
A class XII student of Kolkata’s top-ranked Cambridge International (UK) and International Baccalaureate (Geneva)-affiliated Calcutta International School, Anjali Surana (18) is national winner of the 11th Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards (PSCA) 2021. This teen social activist was presented a gold medallion, certificate of excellence and a cash prize of Rs.350,000 for […]
A class XII student of the CBSE affiliated G.D. Goenka Public School, Siliguri, Abishek Agarwal was recently (February) crowned champion of the TCS IT Wiz (TCSITW) 2020, held online for the first time. In the national finals staged on December 30, Abhishek bested three finalists of St. Jude’s Public School, Kotagiri (Tamil Nadu), School for […]
Early this year Saanvi Mehra (15), a class X student of the CISCE-affiliated Shriram Millennium School, Noida, was adjudged winner of the online Google India Code to Learn Contest 2020.
The prize-winning entry of this young social activist was a machine learning model which identifies newborns with Down Syndrome — a genetic disorder which causes intellectual […]
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