Global Child Prodigy Award
Child YouTube creator (MyMissAnand); received the Global Child Prodigy Award 2020 in entertainment.
2020-01-03 · Supporting source ↗
YouTube creator (MyMissAnand) · INDIA
Anantya Anand
Child YouTube creator (MyMissAnand); received the Global Child Prodigy Award 2020 in entertainment.
10 at the Global Child Prodigy Award in January 2020
Region not established · India
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BEHIND THE RESULT
The recognition
In January 2020, Anantya Anand received the Global Child Prodigy Award in the entertainment category, presented by Dr Kiran Bedi in New Delhi, as one of that year’s Top 100 child prodigies. The Global Child Prodigy Awards is a private awards programme, not a government honour, and this story describes it as such.
A channel run as a family project
Anantya first appeared on her aunt’s channel at four; her own channel, My Miss Anand, began when she was five. In her published interview she describes school on weekdays and shooting on Saturdays, with her mother writing scripts and running the channel. YourStory counted 4.83 million subscribers in November 2019; she reported about 9.4 million a year later. Subscriber figures are dated snapshots, not live counts.
A spark to explore
If you started a channel, what is the one thing you would make videos about — and who in your family would you ask for help? That is a question from us. Anantya’s record also shows the working side of creating: planning, shooting days, and school first.
Source-based story · the activities are prompts for readers.
Open the article edition →The achievement, in context.
Sources you can explore.
Global Child Prodigy Awards · Prodigy Talks interview · November 2020 ↗Award organiser interview
YourStory · 14 November 2019 ↗Independent editorial report
Global Child Prodigy Awards · January 2021 ↗Award organiser record
Original source ↗Another spark to discover.
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