- Ananya Rajaraman – At age of ten written crime novel “Magnus Hooper”
Ananya Rajaraman is a fifteen year old writer and poet, who began creating and reciting sories a the age of two, and penning down her thoughts a six. At ten, she wrote her crime novel ‘Magnus Hooper (As The Criminal Sleeps)’ which was published two years later in 2016. ‘Magnus Hooper: A Contentious Inheritance’ followed it soon after in 2018.
She was hailed a ‘child prodigy’ by the GCPA Association supported by the APJ Abdul Kalam International Foundation for her writing, and was given the ‘Global Child Prodigy Award’ in January 2020
Ananya was selected after a rigorous process of screening that took over a year and a half. The international jury picked 100 adroit children including the Bengaluru girl from over 15,000 nominees across 45 countries.
2. Tiara Abraham – Singing Talent
Soprano prodigy Tiara Abraham, 13, was honored in the ‘singing’ category. She has won won numerous national and international solo singing competitions, she was recently also honored by the Vatican. She released her debut CD when she was 10. The album has nine songs in six different languages.
In April 2019, she wowed a crowd of more than 25,000 when she sang the national anthem at a San Francisco Giants game.
The young singer, who has been a college student since she was seven years old, and has completed 42 college semesters in foreign languages, music and dance, had earlier told India-West that when she was six, she started to sing “simple songs” like “Happy Birthday” or the American national anthem in a vibrato style.
