Tiny Swimmer, Giant Leap: Five-year-old Tamogna’s 6.3 km triumph across Lake Bodensee

by vikram | Oct 20, 2025

(October 20, 2025) This August when five-year-old swimmer Tamogna Mothukuri started swimming in Lindau, Germany, her father and ace swimmer Tulasi Chaitanya kept his fingers crossed. A recipient of the prestigious Tenzing Norgay National Adventure award 2022, he had...

Little Wave-Maker: 6-year-old Aashritha’s big swim

by vikram | Sep 28, 2025

(September 28, 2025) The chill of Lake Bodensee did little to slow six-year-old Mannem Nagasai Aashritha. Stroke after steady stroke, she cut across the deep blue waters, her small frame defying the vast expanse between Lindau in Germany and Bregenz in Austria. What...

Youngest girl to beat a grandmaster: 10-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan defeats 60-year-old veteran Pete Wells

by Amrita Priya | Aug 17, 2025

(August 17, 2024) In Liverpool, a 10-year-old Indian-origin schoolgirl from northwest London has altered the record books of chess. Bodhana Sivanandan defeated 60-year-old grandmaster Pete Wells in the final round of the 2025 British Chess Championships, becoming the...

Prince Nallamothula: The quantum prodigy powering the future

by Amrita Priya | Apr 15, 2025

(April 15, 2025) At just 15, Prince Nallamothula is fast becoming a name to watch in the emerging world of quantum science. A freshman at Centennial High School in Frisco, Texas, he’s already blazed through some of the most competitive science and innovation circuits...

Eighteen-year-old prodigy Janhavi tells it like it is, in nine accents

by Amrita Priya | May 19, 2022

(May 19, 2022) Having completed her senior secondary school at the mere age of 13 Janhavi went on to become a 16-year-old graduate after finishing her undergraduate studies at Delhi University. The prodigy from Samalkha, a town 19 km south of Panipat is popularly...