Indian-origin Laiba Basit sets Guinness record as the youngest female author to publish book series

by Darshana Ramdev | Nov 27, 2022

(November 28, 2022) Laiba Abdul Basit remembers the very first book she ever read. “It was 101 Stories for Girls,” she tells me. A prolific reader by the time she began school, the now eleven-year-old Laiba Abdul Basit entered the Guinness World Records in...

With three books and five honours, nine-year-old Abhijita Gupta is one of the youngest authors of India

by Amrita Priya | Jul 30, 2022

(July 30, 2022) Little Abhijita was thrilled to receive an invitation last year from the Ministry of Culture on behalf of the Government of India to be one of the 40 youth icons in the theme song honouring Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav – 75 years of India’s...

From Midnapore to Cambridge: Bal Puraskar winner Souhardya De is bringing Indic heritage to the world

by Amrita Priya | Jul 19, 2022

(July 19, 2022) At 18, as his peers are busy trying to decide on a college, Souhardya De is the author of two books and has a long list of achievements to his merit. Mythology is his subject of choice, the teen from Midnapore wrote his first book when he was 13 years...

Youngest author to land a book deal, Schwarzman Scholar Manthan Shah is a fountain of ideas

by sekhar | Apr 10, 2022

(April 10, 2022) He’s among a small handful of non-Ivy League students to bag the prestigious Schwarzman Scholarship for 2022-23. A quick Google search throws up headlines like, “Three Princeton graduates” and “Four Stanford grads.” Still, Manthan Shah arrives...

Youngest Writer of Assam awardee Riyad Maroof Hassan connects through storytelling, podcasts & poems

by Charu Thakur | Feb 2, 2022

(February 2, 2022) At just eight, he dreamt about a ship braving a sea storm, and startled by its intensity, he woke up. Curiosity kept him anchored to this lucid dream. Unable to find an answer, he started visualising. “It was a turning point in my life when I...