These 10 child prodigies of Indian origin make us swell with pride

He was born with more than 40 fractures, but that didn’t keep this American born child of Indian descent from giving 45 performances just at the age of 12. He has composed 10 soul stirring songs including, ‘There’s always tomorrow’, ‘Why’d you have to leave me’, ‘Turn around’ and ‘Birthday wishes’. His homage to his favorite singer Eminem was acknowledged by the rapper himself.

Despite all the financial challenges one can imagine, 15 year old Aravind became a chess grandmaster in 2015 and scored 5/9 in the Aeroflot Open this year. Often referred to as India’s next Vishwanathan Anand, he enjoys FIDE rating of 2584.

It’s been 34 years since little Edmund’s demise, but the legacy he has left behind will accompany all art lovers forever. Traditional occasions and temples fascinated him and transcended into his subject of work. In 1983, he conceded to kidney failure. In his short lifespan of 6 years, he had painted over 25000 paintings which were beyond his years in imagination, concept, and finesse, and are displayed widely in various exhibitions.

With an IQ of 146, this little genius made history by performing a surgery at the age of 7 on a girl of 8, who had burnt and fused her fingers. Akrit operated to free those fingers. A teenager now, he is busy in his research aimed at finding a cure of cancer these days.

This wonder kid became famous as “Google Boy” for his astounding memory. His mental prowess can be acreditted to his IQ of over 150. Kautilya knows more than any average adult about the geography, demography, GDP, history, culture and heritage of all the countries in the world. Kashi Vidwan Parishad, Varanasi has titled Kautilya as Bal Manishi and Haryana Government has awarded him with 10 lakhs rupees.

Another NRI of Indian origin, Shubham was a child of 13 when he started his entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. While working on a school project, he came up with this euphoric concept and set up his company that manufactured low cost Brail printers. Next thing you know tech giant Intel offered to back his start-up. Fun fact: he developed the sample piece of his printer on his kitchen table, using his Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit.

Being the only participant who had achieved 100% accuracy in all aspects of mathamatics, namely, complexed addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and even more, Priyanshi won the Mental Calculation World Cup in 2010. She has since secured herself places on the Guinness Book of World Records and Limca Book of World Records.

While grown adults are battling unemployment, this kid was already a CEO in his own game development firm, called the Prudent Games, just at the age of 8. Today, 12 year old Reuben is an exceptional hacker, a proficient app developer and an expert with cyber security. The internet is scattered with his informative videos on these subjects, and he makes hacking sound like child’s play in all of them.

Prolific artists take decades to register the kind of achievements this kid put next to his name just at the age of four. A gifted painter, he doesn’t just doodle like any other toddler, but paints like a professional, holds solo exhibitions at reputed art galleries and sells paintings for thousands of dollars.

He discovered rhythm and beats of a tabla long before blowing the candles to his second birthday cake. Before turning 6, he had mastered the instrument and had become the youngest tabla maestro in the world. Truptraj also boasts a Guinness Book of World Records certificate awarded to him for his unmatched craft.