Nihal Rajagopal
A little chef from Kochi
Nihal Raj — “Kicha” to his viewers — started a cooking channel at five, sold a video to Facebook at six, and demonstrated Kerala’s puttu on American television.

A little chef from Kochi
Nihal Raj — “Kicha” to his viewers — started a cooking channel at five, sold a video to Facebook at six, and demonstrated Kerala’s puttu on American television.

Age 14N° 01 · MENTAL CALCULATIONA mind for numbers. A habit of practice.Aaryan Shukla
Age 14N° 02 · CRICKETFourteen. Thirty-five balls. A century.Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
Age 14N° 03 · SWIMMINGA first Olympic swim. A much longer journey.Dhinidhi Desinghu
Age 16N° 04 · AI TOOLS AND LEARNINGLearning to build—and asking what AI is for.Raul John Aju
Age 13N° 05 · AI PROJECT ENTREPRENEURSHIPA young builder brings an idea to the stage.Jaiwardhan Tyagi
Age 13N° 06 · ANTI-BULLYING TECHNOLOGYBuilding a way to speak up about bullying.Anoushka Jolly
Age 11N° 07 · CHESSA chess journey recorded one result at a time.Kolagatla Alana Meenakshi
Age 12N° 08 · MARTIAL ARTSFrom Kokernag to the sqay competition floor.Hanaya Nisar
Age 16N° 09 · WEIGHTLIFTINGThe girl from Pekata who lifts more than twice her body weightJyoshna Sabar
Age 12N° 10 · CYCLINGRiding across India, one pedal at a timeArav Bhardwaj
Age 16N° 11 · MOUNTAINEERINGSeven continents, seven highest peaks — before turning seventeenVishwanath Karthikey Padakanti
Age 16N° 12 · AI & ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGYA device that helps people be understoodPranet Khetan
Age 9N° 13 · CHESSThe chess champion who says: I either win or learnCharvi Anilkumar
Age 13N° 14 · PAKHAWAJThe boy keeping an old drum’s rhythmArijeet Banerjee
Age 6N° 15 · MENTAL MATHEMATICS AND CHILDREN’S AUTHORSHIPThe Google Math Boy of BilaspurArmaan Ubhrani
Age 9N° 16 · BADMINTONFirst on the podium for ArunachalJesicca Neyi Saring
Age 8RESCUE · TAMIL NADUVyoma Priya of Coimbatore was nine years old in the official list of the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2025, where her name is ma…
Vyoma Priya
Age 13LOGISTICS (PAPERS N PARCELS) · MAHARASHTRATilak Mehta, a Class 8 student in Mumbai, founded Papers N Parcels in 2018 — an app-based courier that used the city’s dabbawala network…
Tilak Mehta
Age 18CHESS · TAMIL NADUGukesh Dommaraju learned chess at school in Chennai at seven. At 12 he was a Grandmaster, at 17 the youngest-ever challenger for the worl…
Gukesh Dommaraju
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION (ONE STEP GREENER) · DELHIVihaan Agarwal connected Delhi’s waste to its air after the Ghazipur landfill collapse, co-founded One Step Greener at 14, and jointly wo…
Vihaan Agarwal
Age 18Gukesh Dommaraju learned chess at school in Chennai at seven. At 12 he was a Grandmaster, at 17 the youngest-ever challenger for the world title — and a…
Gukesh Dommaraju
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Swasti Patil of Pune — “Unschooled” in every official listing — won bronze at the European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics in 2025, then gold in Italy in…
Swasti Patil
A device that helps people be understoodPranet Khetan · AI & assistive technology
The student who taught Mumbai which trees to plantAadya Joshi · Biodiversity (The Right Green)
An AI rehab tool, built from his own recoveryArnav Anupriya Maharshi · AI rehabilitation technology
The young snake rescuer of GuwahatiSaiyam Mazumder · Animal and snake rescue
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