*LITTLE GENIUS *
*14-year-old boy wonder tops IIT-JEE in Delhi zone *
*Home-Schooled Sahal Kaushik Wants To Study Pure Sciences *
*Neha Pushkarna | TNN
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New Delhi: The boy sat hunched, his eyes on the floor and his hands held in
a twisted clasp below his knees, clearly uncomfortable with all the
attention. On Wednesday, 14-year-old Sahal Kaushik left everyone gasping in
disbelief by not only becoming the youngest ever to crack the tough IIT-JEE
test but also topping it in Delhi and notching an all-India rank of 33.
Sahal, tutored at home by his mother, Ruchi Kaushik, a doctor turned
homemaker, spoke after a long gap to the barrage of questions - which IIT
would he join? Would he study electronics engineering? He looked up: “I want
to study pure science, physics or mathematics, not engineering.” He looked
down again. “I took the JEE because I could also get science courses through
it.”
He looked like any other 14-year-old, but is clearly very special. Sahal
could spell out long words when he was just two, he recited tables till 100
at the age of four, and by the time he was six, he had finished reading HG
Wells’ ‘Time Machine’. The child’s brain is obviously wired differently.
He muttered something to the effect that topping the JEE in Delhi wasn’t
a “big deal”. Then a long pause. Was he doing some complex mental maths,
someone asked. “No,” he smiled, “not today.” He said he should attribute his
success to his mother and his “physics sir” but his alltime idol was Albert
Einstein. He also wanted to do research in astrophysics.
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