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Hyderabad boy makes it to Guinness

Shubhra Tandon

Nishchal Narayanam

HYDERABAD: The wonder kid has finally done it. Eleven-year-old Nishchal Narayanam has got an entry into the Guinness Book of World Records in the `Most Random Objects Memorised' category. He broke the record of his own teacher, Jayasimha Ravirala, who made it to the Guinness Book for memorising 200 objects in December 2005 in Hyderabad.

Nischal made the record of memorising 225 random objects without seeing them in the presence of 15 eminent judges from various fields on August 20. Not just that, he went a step ahead, as he could also relate a random object to its number, give the names in correct order for a series of numbers and also tell them in the reverse order.

Younger son of industrialist N. Nageshwara Rao and Dr. Padmavathy, Nischal studies in Class 6 in Geetanjali School. The boy has a talent in the art of Ganitavadhanam too and gave his maiden performance at Ravindra Bharathi two years ago.

He has also penned a VI volume book and created a Primary Math Lab to simplify the concept of Mathematics.

The list of accolades for Nishchal does not end here. He has received felicitations from premier educational institutions and other art and literary organisations both in India and abroad.

His expertise in blind fold chess is amazing as his surprise moves criss-crossing the chess board and checkmating the opponent are driven by his sheer concentration and visualisation.

Nishchal considers his mother the driving force behind him. Although the little master has not decided upon his ultimate goal in life, he wants to set many such records.

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