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City lad wins National Child Award

Staff Reporter

Nischal Narayanam

HYDERABAD: A new feather was added to the cap of Nischal Narayanam, a mathematics prodigy from the city, when he won the National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement for the year 2008, an award given by the Ministry of Women and Child Development to children below 15 years for their outstanding performance in the areas of academics, culture and sports.

Andhra Pradesh won this gold medal 13 years after the previous gold was bagged by Pendyala Hari Krishna, the youngest chess Grand Master in India, said N. Nageswara Rao, father of Nischal. The Chairperson of United Progressive Alliance (UPA), Sonia Gandhi gave him the award last Thursday at a function held in New Delhi.

His creation ‘Nischal Math Lab’, a set of six volumes of books and mathematical equipment that is said to make mathematics easy, shot him to the fame. His math lab was recently included into the curriculum of Maharashtra State Education Board, said Mr. Nageswara Rao.

Several records

The 12-year Nischal has several records to his credit in the area of mathematics and memory, including a Guinness record. He was one among the four selected by the National Geographic Channel for its ‘My Brilliant Brain’ series, which explored the different aspects of human brain and genius.

He earlier broke the world record in the category of ‘most random objects memorised’ by remembering the names of 225 objects. Previous to him the record was held by Squadron Leader Jayasimha, a city-based mind power trainer, who was also the coach of Nischal.

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