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YouTube creator (Learn With Amar) · INDIA

Amar Swathwik Thogiti

Telangana schoolboy behind Learn With Amar, a YouTube channel teaching memory techniques for the countries of the world and the rivers of India, developed with his father, a government school teacher; profiled by Scroll in November 2018 (aged 12, ~1.6 lakh subscribers) and CollegeDekho in February 2019 (aged 13, 1,87,000+ subscribers), with many viewers being UPSC aspirants. Surname spelled Thogini (Scroll) / Thogiti (CollegeDekho) — disclosed, not resolved.

Aged 12 in November 2018 (Scroll) and 13 in February 2019 (CollegeDekho)

Telangana · India

Amar beside a hand-drawn world map labelled with countries and rivers, from the CollegeDekho profile of his Learn With Amar channel
Amar with his hand-drawn world map — the teaching aid behind Learn With Amar (CollegeDekho profile, 2019). The published photograph is small (380 × 199) and is shown at its natural size.
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BEHIND THE RESULT

The young teacher

In November 2018, Scroll magazine profiled a 12-year-old from Telangana who was already a familiar teacher to thousands of strangers. Amar’s channel, Learn With Amar, offered memory tricks for the hardest lists in the school atlas — the countries of the world, the rivers of India — techniques developed by his father, Goverdhan Chary Thogini, and delivered on camera with a schoolboy’s confidence. The channel had around 1.6 lakh subscribers when Scroll reported it.

How the channel began

CollegeDekho’s February 2019 profile names him in full — Amar Swathwik Thogiti — and says he was 13, with more than 1,87,000 subscribers. It records how the channel began in 2016, when he was ten: he loved playing with an atlas in Class 5, his father — a government school teacher — began teaching him geography, and when Amar acted out a lesson, his mother filmed it and put it online. The response turned the performance into a channel. Many of his viewers were not schoolchildren at all but aspirants preparing for the UPSC civil-services examination, who posted requests; Amar would research a topic for about two weeks, practise, and then teach it. His younger brother Angh Vignesh also made videos for the channel.

A spark to explore

Amar told CollegeDekho he hoped to expand into economics and political science, and that he himself wanted to become an IAS officer. Coverage of Amar is concentrated in 2018–19; no later verified profile was found, and no age is asserted beyond the dated reports. Amar taught lessons to adults preparing for one of India’s toughest exams — what is something you understand well enough that you could teach it to someone older than you? That is a question from us, not part of his record.

Source-based story · the activities are prompts for readers.

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The achievement, in context.

Profiled by Scroll (2018) and CollegeDekho (2019) as a child geography educator

Telangana schoolboy behind Learn With Amar, a YouTube channel teaching memory techniques for the countries of the world and the rivers of India, developed with his father, a government school teacher; profiled by Scroll in November 2018 (aged 12, ~1.6 lakh subscribers) and CollegeDekho in February 2019 (aged 13, 1,87,000+ subscribers), with many viewers being UPSC aspirants. Surname spelled Thogini (Scroll) / Thogiti (CollegeDekho) — disclosed, not resolved.

2019-02-06 · Supporting source ↗

Sources you can explore.

Scroll · Children’s Day feature, 14 November 2018 ↗Magazine profile

CollegeDekho · profile, 6 February 2019 ↗Education press profile

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Prakriti Kalra (Pihu)

Elder sister and co-star of the Aayu and Pihu Show, the Kota family’s Hindi children’s YouTube channel launched in May 2017; Scroll (November 2018) records her at 11, the channel’s turn to Hindi moral stories “made by kids and for kids”, and her central role in its then-biggest video, Ek Jhooth. Channel milestones (Silver Play Button, June 2018; six lakh subscribers, September 2018; Diamond Play Button, November 2020) are channel achievements shared with her brother Aayu — a separate record — and are labelled as such.

Aged 11 in November 2018 coverage (Scroll)

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