Wonder girl from Lucknow is all set to finish school at age five

Four-year-old Ananya from Lucknow is a small wonder. Born to illiterate parents the little girl got admission in Class 9 at a school. What’s more if she clears the Class 10 exam next year she will break her own sister’s record. The family is gifted.

While other children in her class struggle, Ananya has vowed her teachers by speaking fluent English and being able to read the newspaper, reports in Indian media claim.

But Ananya is not the only achiever in her family, rather her two elder siblings, brother Shailendra and sister Sushma are also geniuses who have achieved great academic success.

Brother Sailendra had been in the news earlier when he graduated in computer science from Lucknow University in 2007 at the age of 14. He passed the examination with 74.93% marks and is now a software engineer in Bengaluru.

Her sister Sushma too made headlines in the same year by entering the Limca Book of Records as the country’s youngest matriculate by passing the UP Board Class 10 examinations at the age of seven.

She went on to become the youngest science graduate from Lucknow University in 2013 and then becoming the youngest post-graduate in microbiology from the Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU) in 2015. At 15 years of age she reached another milestone by enrolling in a Ph.D. course the same year.

People who know them are impressed yet baffled at the same time by the siblings’ academic achievements. They have no idea how the kids turned out to be such geniuses considering that their mother is illiterate and father is a daily wage earner working as a sanitation supervisor.

Ananya, however, has no idea about her impact on the world. She is content spending time with her studies and loves to read books in her free time especially the Hanuman Chalisa and Ramayana. She goes to St Meera’s School, the same institution that her sister Sushma went to, and already has her principal in awe claiming that she picks up things very fast and is already showing signs of being brighter than her sister Sushma.

The father believes that his kids have been blessed with Saraswati’s blessings, the goddess of learning, considering that he and his wife are both illiterate.