: At first glance, four-year-old Somagani Spoorthi looks very much a little kid. A student of LKG in Ravindra Bharathi School, Kushaiguda, she broke records and entered the Telugu Book and the Telangana Book of Records at two years and two months for her near photographic memory.
She went on to get a listing in the India Book of Records even as she was just three years old. She received a ‘Balaratna’ award and Wonder Kid prize, when was just two years and 11 months old, from the Telangana government last year. Native of Penchikaldinna village of Nereducherla mandal in Suryapet district, her father Kiran Kumar now lives with his family in Kapra.
All right, so what is she good at? Spoorthi can effortlessly reel out the names of 119 Assembly constituencies in Telangana, together with the MLAs in just a few minutes. She also remembers bits of Telangana and Indian history. That’s not all, she also established a record recalling the capitals of 71 countries in one minute and got an entry in the India Book of World Records !
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As recently as December 30, 2016, she recited Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s biography and recalled the several schemes he introduced in two minutes and 30 seconds. How did she develop the art of remembering all these details? “We saw her talent when she was very young and with suggestions from family friends, we motivated her and over a period of time, saw the speed with which she adapted to learning these tidbits,” says her father. “Friends also told us that we could not overload her and hence we just ensure that the material is available to her. She reads on her own and also watches television and absorbs details,” her father says.