Kid tries to lisp his way into records

Updated on: 10 February,2009 11:23 AM IST |
Savie Karnel |

Tagore Bharadwaj, not yet four, has an amazing memory. He's still learning to speak though

Tagore Bharadwaj, not yet four, has an amazing memory. He's still learning to speak though

Tagore Bharadwaj can reel off 19 shlokas from the Bhagavad Gita and could well enter the Limca Book of Records for having an exceptional memory. And oh, he's three-and-a-half years old.

His parents put it down to his grasping power, strong memory and his name.

Lucky

The child's name sounds like a combination of two last names. "An astrologer had asked us to give him a name which begins with the sound of 'ta' as in Tata. We couldn't find one and so we named him Tagore," he said. The father feels that the name has been lucky too.

"We do not force him or set a time to learn things. Whenever we go out, we teach him some answers and he remembers them. We do not make him put in any extra effort," said his father, N Vasant, a businessman.

While the father teaches the child general knowledge and mathematics, his mother teaches him the shlokas.

The child cannot speak clearly but manages to answer the questions correctly.

"He speaks Kannada, and now we are teaching him to speak in English. He has learnt quite a bit but is not fluent still," he said.

The child eats regular food and has no special diet. "Only thing is we are vegetarians," he said.

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