International Children’s Day: Meet Indian Kids Who Are Making Us Proud With Their Talent

The youngest climate environmental activist who received 'India Peace Prize 2019' and Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Children Award 2019 and fight against climate change at the age of 7, is from Manipur, India. Licypriya Kangujam has become India’s youngest climate activist. Earlier in 2018, she was invited in the Asian Ministerial Conference For Disaster Risks Reduction, in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar. She protested at the parliament house for climate justice, urging PM Narendra Modi to enact the climate change law in India.

A 15-year-old Tilak Mehta? one of the youngest entrepreneurs in the world started up his own company in Mumbai in 2018 called 'Papers N Parcels'. The startup has tied up with 500 of Mumbai's famous dabbawallas, letting them turn around approximately 1,200 parcels a day. There's even an app for it, to make hiring the service easier. Then the dabbawallas transfer your parcel the way they usually do for people's lunches.

A 16-year-old Lydian Nadhaswaram young Indian pianist won the CBS talent show with $1 million prize money in 2019. He is from Channai, Tamil Nadu. He is the son of Tamil music director Varshan Sathish.

A Chennai based 15-year-old boy Ramesh Praggnanandhaa became the youngest Chess International Master in human history at the age of 10. Not only this, but he also claimed the title of the Chess Grandmaster. His success includes World Youth Chess Championship Under-8 boys title in 2013, and the Under-10 boys' title in 2015. In April he won gold in the Under-12 section of the Asian Youth Championship 2016.

He also known as 'Google Boy' is a child prodigy from a Kohand Village of Karnal district in the indian state of Haryana. He displays good memory power regarding current affairs, general knowledge and geographical statistics. At the age of five Kautilya Pandit participated in the popular TV show Kaun Banega Crorepati and since then he has blown people over with his endless knowledge on a sea of subjects. The boy is a wonder kid and he may have an IQ around 130 which is rare for his age group.

Arshdeep Singh, from Jalandhar won one of wildlife photography's top most awards in the world at age of 10. Arshdeep was the winner of the 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year award in the 10-years-and-under category. His photo, ‘Pipe Owls’ was awarded the best in the category by Britain’s Natural History Museum which gives the annual award.? According to Arshdeep, the photo was taken just outside Kapurthala, in Punjab.?

Two times Limca Book of Record Holder for singing the most number of National Anthems, 15-year-old Yathaarth Murthy. He can sing 260 Countries' National Anthems.

In 2020 Nihal Raj also known as Little Chef Kicha won Global Child Prodigy Award and was among the Top 100 prodigies of the year. He is one of the Youngest Chef in the World who came all the way from India to share his delicious recipe with Ellen at top-rated American Television Talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show. He taught Ellen to cook Kerala’s popular breakfast ‘PUTTU.’

The thing about prodigies is that they hit their peak early. Shubham Jaglan was no different when it came to golf. In 2012, he caught the attention of the entire world by making a world record in the Classic Junior Open. A year later, he managed to name the 'World Masters of Junior Golf'. This was only the beginning. Year 2015. At the Angel Park Golf Course, Shubham captured the 'World Championship title' by defeating Ken Sibata of Japan.

A 6-year-old Advait Kolarkar from Canada who is not just holding solo exhibitions, but also selling his art for thousands of dollars at the age of four. His paintings are mostly inspired by galaxies, dinosaurs and dragons. He held his first solo exhibition at the Saint John Arts Centre in New Brunswick in January 2018. The show titled 'Colour Blizzard', saw his paintings fetching as much as $2,000 (over Rs 1.3 lakhs).?