The applause did not end and hundreds of students were left mesmerised by the seven-year-old ‘Google boy’ Kautilya Pandit from Karnal district, Haryana.
Dressed in a plain black kurta pajama, Kautilya was the guest at Greenwood High International School. He answered several general knowledge questions: capitals of countries, parts of the body and others related to geography, all in a jiffy. The whiz kid has been honoured at least 100 times, and received an award from the Haryana government for his exceptional intelligence quotient (IQ) and memory. He even appeared on the show, Kaun Banega Crorepati .
As soon as he came on stage to address the students, he said: “I have been fortunate enough to be discovered, but there are many like me.” This set off the mood for the audience to stay glued to their seats through the one-and-a- half-hour interaction. Ask him the capital of Iran, in seconds he shoots back ‘Tehran’. The area of Vatican City? Almost 110 acres, comes the reply.
Students found him enchanting not just for his quick wit, but also for his ‘naughtiness’. He kept asking students to keep quiet, and pindrop silence followed, leaving the principal rather envious.
After the interactive session, students rushed up to him for an autograph, and he scribbled his name in cursive writing.
His ambition is to become an astronaut. When asked the secret of his memory power, he said: “I keep asking questions all the time, and learn.”
His inquisitiveness was evident when he ran away from answering more questions, preferring to spend time with a photographer to learn his trade.