At an age when most children are just graduating from alphabets to words, Kautilya Pandit can name every galaxy, reel off Australia’s GDP and talk about Indonesia’s politics.
In Kohand, a village in Karnal, Haryana, Kautilya, all of 5 years and eight months, is often called ‘Google Boy’. His parents say the child spent his toddler years relentlessly throwing questions at them – where, why, who, how about everything around him. At one stage, his extraordinary powers of comprehension and recall had scared his parents enough to approach the psychology department of Kurukshetra University. They were told that the child’s IQ stood around 130 points against 92-110 of a normal kid and should pay particular attention to his schooling.
It was tiresome and intriguing but their patience with his questions appears to have paid off. Kautilya will be on the Kaun Banega Crorepati hot seat on November 8, Children’s Day. He has been invited to KBK as a celebrity. Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, it appears, is impressed with the child.