– Somasekhar Mulugu (Hyderabad)
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh)-based athletics star Jyothi Yarraji (24) is on a roll this year. At the recently concluded XIX Asian Games staged in Hangzhou (China), she won a silver medal in the 100 metres hurdles clocking 12.91 seconds — .13 seconds faster than her own national record. Earlier in July, this lanky […]
– Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Back in Kolkata from the XIX Asian Games — which concluded in Hangzhou, China with a blaze of colour on October 8 — Ayhika Mukherjee (26) and Sutirtha Mukherjee (28) brought home a bronze medal in table tennis (women’s doubles). En route, they derived considerable consolation from having bested world champion Chinese […]
– Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Abu Dhabi (UAE)-based Gokul Karthik Kumar (24) is bent on leveraging the power of AI (artificial intelligence) to create positive social impact in the world. Among his innovations are a
GOKUL KUMAR
methodology to detect hate speech in social media memes, an AI-human interactive dubbing platform and deep learning-based text-to-speech systems in […]
-Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)
LYDIAN NADHASWARAM
Chennai-based teenage music prodigy Lydian Nadhaswaram (17) sprang into the global limelight after he won the $1 million (Rs.7 crore) The World’s Best (American reality show) title in 2019 for piano proficiency, and wowed viewers on The Ellen DeGeneres Show with blindfold piano play. In addition, he plays 18 musical […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
A class IX student of Prelude Public School, Agra, Akshar Mishra is the latest teen to join India’s league of young novelists. On April 8, this 14-year-old’s second novel The World of Magic Powers (Himanshu Publications) was released at Prelude School jointly by Dr. Prateep Philip (former DGP, Tamil Nadu & author), Salim […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
L-R: Prisha, Anupriya & Vanalika
Team Udaan comprising Prisha Dubey, Anupriya Nayak and Vanalika Konwar — all class XII students of Amity International School, Saket, New Delhi — was adjudged winner of the inaugural Corporate Social Responsibility Program of Samsung (India) — Solve for Tomorrow (SFT) 2022 National Innovation Competition, for developing […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
A class X student of Kolkata’s top-ranked Modern High School (MHS) for Girls, Anandini Sengupta (15) is still savouring the sweet taste of success, months after her short story Hope Floats was selected from 10,000 entries and published by Scholastic Publishers in an anthology titled Teen Tales. The Top 16 entries of aspiring […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Bengaluru-based Aarav Lad (9) was adjudged first runner-up in the 9-11 age group among 120 solo pianists in the fifth online edition of the International Festival-Contest ‘Music of the World,’ staged in Israel in March. The competition attracted contestants from 24 countries worldwide.
Debuting in his first international competition, this pre-teen prodigy wowed the […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Sriya Sainath (25), a computer science engineering graduate of NIT-Rourkela and currently a first year MBA student of the blue-chip IIM-Bangalore, was adjudged Young Analyst 2022 of the London-based Institute of Analytics (IoA) in early March. IoA is a global organisation established to encourage responsible and ethical data science professionals.
Earlier in 2018 while […]
-Runa Mukherjee Parikh (Ahmedabad)
There was a thrilling sense of deja vu in the Jhala household when Ahmedabad-based Veerangana Jhala (7) was conferred the National Bravery Award 2023 ahead of Republic Day (January 26) in Delhi by Major General (Retd.) ‘Ironman’ Vikram Dogra, for displaying extraordinary courage in saving 60 human lives in a fire on […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Mumbai-based coding enthusiast Yuvvan Talreja (16) was declared Top 10 National Winner for innovating an air pollution detection device, by an eminent jury at the grand finale of the inaugural edition of Vivo Ignite Science and Innovation competition staged in Delhi, on February 8. As a Top 10 National Winner — ranked #4 […]
-Somasekhar Mulugu (Hyderabad)
A teenager from a BPL (below poverty line) household in Hyderabad, Preethi Kongara is making waves in an elite sport — sailing. In February, the 19-year-old qualified for the forthcoming Asian Games 2023 — scheduled to be held in Hangzhou (China) in September — in the mixed 470 class category. To ready herself, […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Bengaluru-based Rishi Shiv Prasanna (9) is a boy wonder who has made it into the list of nationally celebrated social innovators. On Republic Day (January 26) this year, Rishi was one of 11 children conferred the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar award by President Draupadi Murmu at a grand ceremony at Vigyan Bhavan, […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Class XII student and captain of sports at Kolkata’s top-ranked The Heritage School, Neha Sannabhadti (17) is shaping into a national triathlon (swimming, cycling and running) champion. On January 8, she won the 10 km Ekal Run Marathon which drew participation of 4,000 enthusiasts, in a “fair” time of 47.56 minutes. (National record: […]
Runa Mukherjee Parikh (Ahmedabad)
When not reading Harry Potter stories, Ahmedabad-based Hanya Shah (11) prefers to practise chess moves. Both pastimes have proved useful. Recently (November), this class VI pupil of the city’s CBSE-affiliated Apple Global School, hit national headlines when she won bronze at the Commonwealth Chess Championships staged in Kalutara (Sri Lanka). To her […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Bengaluru-based pre-teen Tanishi Gupta is a promising competitive swimmer who already has 50 medals of state and national aquatic championships adorning her mantelpiece at home.
Late last year at the National Games of India staged in Gujarat, this sprint mermaid who specialises in the 50 and 100 metres freestyle and butterfly stroke events, was […]
Gurugram (Haryana)-based Dhruvi Choudhary (15) is an emerging star in national gymnastics. Last December (2022), she won an individual bronze medal in rhythmic gymnastics in the senior category at the National Games staged in Bengaluru. Earlier in May, this Haryana champion was selected to compete in the School World Games of the International School Sports […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Kalna (West Bengal)-based Sayani Das recently set a new record by becoming the first Asian woman to swim across the 43-km Molokai Channel which separates the islands of O’ahu and Molokai in Hawaii, USA. Sayani swam the channel which strong currents and gusty winds apart, is also the hunting ground of sharks, box […]
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. […]
Runa Mukherjee Parikh (Ahmedabad)
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 […]
Somasekar Mulugu (Hyderabad)
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 […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
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 […]
-Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)
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 […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
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, […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
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 […]
Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
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 […]
Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
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 […]
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