IN PICS: BYJU’S Young Genius - Meet the Young Prodigies From Across India

Abhinav Shaw was just 8 when he became India’s youngest shooter to cross the national trials. In 2018, he became the youngest state champion and moved on to winning 2 gold medals at the 62nd National Shooting Championship in the under 18 category and the under 21 category which has made him the youngest National Champion in India. He is the youngest to score a magnificent score of 623.1 at K.S.S National Shooting event, 2019 and a silver medal at the Masters Shooting Championship, 2019.

Recipient of the Master Madan Award from Suresh Wadkar's Music Academy and the Naad Brahma Award, Anirban Roy has performed in many prestigious events around the country, with the likes of Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Niladri Kumar, and Kaushiki Chakraborty.

Anoushka Jolly is a 12 years old founder and CEO of Anti-bullying Squad which is a social enterprise against bullying. They aim to reduce bullying in schools and campuses and spread awareness about the same. Anti-Bullying Squad (ABS) is a web platform that organises individual one-on-one sessions in schools, with the help of experts. The platform also allows people to take a pledge and get ABS merchandise. Through ABS, Anoushka has also been spreading awareness about body positivity, self love and cyberbullying. Within a year of its existence, ABS has reached out and helped 500 plus students in India

14-year-old Anthea Dias is the only Indian who has participated in and won the silver medal (U-14 Category) at the International Piano, Violin & Guitar Competition held by Progressive Musicians (Progressive Musicians is a world-renowned organization who conduct annual competitions). This year only 11 kids made it to the top in the category of 11 –14.

Anubrata Sarkar is a self-taught child prodigy from a small town Alipurduar, Bengal and he has learnt from the books which he borrowed from the library and net and has learnt Coding, reasoning and mental Math's with the help of online classes and Google searches. He has laid a lot of stress on security in his apps. Anubrata has got 7 approved apps to his credit

Aswatha Biju received the ‘Global Child Prodigy Award 2020” in Category Education-Paleontologist. Dr. Mahendra Pal Singh President of Paleontological society of India and Dr.VandhanaPrasad Director of Birbal Sahni institute of Paleontology certified her as the ‘Young Paleontologist of India’.

Avantika Kambli is currently World No. 2 among kids, and in the top 10 in open category in 6 Digit Imperfect Square Roots category. Avantika has participated in mental calculation championships in Germany, Dubai, Turkey, Singapore making India proud. In the recent Dubai Mental Mathematics International Championship, she won the Youngest Achiever Award; with silver medals in two categories -Open and Kids. She has demonstrated amazing memorization and calculation skills at these competitions.

Chirag Rathi has the ability to add, subtract and multiply numbers upto 20 crore so far. He can calculate Tables up to 40 Crore and square and square root, cube, and cube root upto100 crore. And he can do this within a couple of seconds.

Jayadithya Shetty won the famous Memoriad Turkey Open Championship, 2019 (one of the most sort after competitions in the field of Maths, Memory, mental maths, and speed reading). He now holds the world records in the Kids category in Mental Division (10 Digits by 5 Digits) and Binary Digits (5 Minutes).

Inspired by Chinese pianist Lang Lang, young Lydian can play the piano at a speed of 190 beats per minute, and can even play blindfolded! Lydian has appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show and collaborated with music maestro A.R. Rahman. He spent four years at maestro A.R. Rahman’s KM Music Conservatory. He is currently composing for a film called Barroz. It is a 3D film directed by Mr Mohanlal.

Meghali Malabika was just 4 years old when her parents discovered her talent. Within few months she could identify all 196 countries on the atlas, their capitals, flags, currency, major rivers, deserts, mountains, and more in seconds. She claims that she does not have to learn anything, she can memorize things she hears just once. Meghali has 4 records with India Book of Records

9-year-old Pooja Bishnoi holds the world record of covering a distance of a 3 km run in 12.50 minutes and 10 km run in 48 minutes in the Under-10 category. She is a World Record holder for the youngest Asian with 6-pack abs. She has also been selected by the Virat Kohli Foundation and is supported by it.

Rishi Shiv Prasanna has been certified by Mensa International for an IQ level of 180 at the age of four years 11 months. He is the youngest certified Android application developer (has developed 2 apps -‘IQ Quiz App’ for kids, and ‘Know Countries and Continents’ apps) and has been identified as one of the top 6 Indian kids in coding by the WhitehatJr team.

In 2018, at the Vigyantram Aakaar ( IIT Bombay) Shorya Bhasin won the 2nd position in Wireless Robotics. His team RoboChamps won the World Robotics Olympiad where they represented India and aced it.

Siddharth Kumar Gopal is the recipient of the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Shakti Puraskar2020 in the field of Scholastics. To name a few prestigious accomplishments, Siddharth was rank 1st in the International Maths Olympiad held by SOF 2019-20 and received the gold honour in the International Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad Versatile. He was awarded high honours in the SCAT exam conducted by John Hopkins Centre for Talented Youth, Baltimore, USA in 2019. He will be traveling to USA to study Forensic Medicine in 2020 at John Hopkins.

Srinika Purohit is one of the youngest dancers to perform at the India International Dance Festival. She won the Odissi Pratibha at the age of 4.She has performed across the country, and also internationally in countries such as Singapore, Japan and USA.

Steven Samuel Devassy is recognized as the ‘Fastest Child Drummer ‘ and has been invited by leading music academies from the USA. The world-famous Cymbal manufacturer ‘ZILDJIAN’ has made Steven the brand ambassador for Zildjian Cymbals and he is the youngest in the world to receive such an honour. A Concert at AR Rahman’s KM Music Conservatory and International Film Festival, Mumbai is amongst his latest performances. His song –10,000 reasons -has more than 40 Million views on YouTube.

Suhana Saini is India’s number 1 Table Tennis Player (U 15), World ranking -22. Suhana has won 39 national and 29 international competitions like ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation) Cups (2015 to 2019), South Asia Jr Cup, US Open and she is No.1 in the South Asia Cadet.

Tiluck Keisam represented India in the 1st Asian Roller Skating Open Championship and won a silver medal for the country. Tiluck has made it to the Guinness World Records in “farthest distance limbo skating under bars”. The title was announced officially on 20th December 2015. On 31st December 2016, he broke his own Guinness World Record for “farthest distance limbo skating under bars”, going an unbelievable 145 meters, while his previous record was that of 116 meters He also entered the Limcabook of Records in “longest slalom Wave” (World Record) in Nov 2019.

Truptraj Pandya showed a natural predilection towards tabla as early as a 2-year-old when he was often found playing the aluminum utensils from the kitchen for percussions. Currently training in Tabla under Pt. Nayan Ghosh, Truptraj is also an adept vocalist, an articulate orator (has spoken at TEDX venues), and enjoys sports as much as the boy next door. He is also well versed in the nuances of harmonium, dholak, and Congo drums. The biggest challenge he faces is balancing between school and music riyaaz.

Zunaira Khan was just 12 years old when she started “ZMINFOCOM”–A software development and consultancy firm. She has developed business applications, mobile applications, web applications, etc for clients like Licious, Fooditnow, Daily ninja to name a few.