prodigy

Aarit Kapil, a nine-year-old chess prodigy from Delhi, astounded the chess world by drawing against Magnus Carlsen in the ‘Early Titled Tuesday’ tournament. Here’s more about him.

What started as a fascination for Aswatha Biju after seeing a picture of an ammonite fossil in encyclopedia soon turned into a passion that had no plans of dying done.

Once rediscovered, the pages electrified the world of mathematics. They were what the physicist Freeman Dyson remarked “flowers that grew from seeds that ripened in Ramanujan’s garden”.

Meet Tiara Abraham -- a 10-year-old who realised that she is musically gifted at the age of five when she burst into vibrato while singing Happy Birthday and was in college by the time she was seven years.

Becoming a source of inspiration for many sports enthusiasts in the country, Chandan Nayak, an 11-year-old football prodigy from Sabar Sahi slum in Bhubaneswar, has been selected to train at Bayer Munich in Germany.

On 16 July 2015, Shubham Jaglan won not only the IMG Academy Junior World Golf Championship for the 9-10 age category, but also all the battles that life had posed in front of the 10 year old boy.