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A general knowledge whiz kid

Staff Reporter

LKG student amazes teachers, elders in talent hunt show

CHILD PRODIGY: LKG student Sai A. Vikram (left) answers a volley of questions from other students at a talent hunt show at Zion Higher Secondary school at Selaiyur on Wednesday. — PHOTO: A. Muralitharan

TAMBARAM: At just three years and seven months, and in Lower Kindergarten, Sai A. Vikram Karna is still unbeatable.

On Wednesday morning, school students twice his age were unable to defeat him when it came to testing his general knowledge.

During the inaugural function of a three-day Talent Hunt 2006 at Zion Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Selaiyur near Tambaram on Wednesday, students from the suburbs and city lined up with their questions, asking Sai Vikram (of the same school) the names of Indian leaders, capitals of the different States as well capital cities of countries.

The students did not end with that and continued to shoot questions on science, technology, geography and rarely did he fail.

Sai Vikram so amazed the audience that most of them rose to their feet and applauded him. School teachers said that after noticing Sai's remarkable sense of memory and his extensive general knowledge, they allotted a special slot to coach him.

A. Aarthi, his mother, said his son displayed such qualities when he was only 18-months-old. "We started from the basics and he used to catch up with them very fast. He would recall things he had learnt long back," remarked Aarthi, a homemaker, and a post-graduate; her husband R. Anand is a businessman and a diploma holder.

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