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This 8-year-old prodigy will leave you astonished!

ANI / Jan 20, 2021, 18.58 PM IST

A class three student Pratyush Kumar Swain has left everyone amazed with his talent. Pratyush at the tender age of 8-year has a command over globe. He gained the knowledge over the globe during last six months. Pratyush has not only the knowledge of 195 countries capitals and flags, but the languages, currencies and population of each country in the world is on his tongue. Within a second, Pratyush will answer questions related to continental songs and even population of world’s biggets and smallest countries. Speaking to ANI, Pratyush said, “Once a school friend of mine asked me the capital of some country but I was unable to reply him. I came home and started to learn everything. Using Google and YouTube during lockdown, I learnt everything. I may reply any of your answers from entire globe with-in a second like the flags name of countries, currency, song, even population of any country with states”. Prashant Kumar Swain, father of Pratyush, “I am blessed and proud of my son today. He used to connect with television and his laptop in his room during the lockdown. In the beginning, we never understood what he does with maximum time spending on the laptop. My son one day told me, I may tell you the entire countries capitals name across the world with population and currency. Really, I was amazed to hear answers from him, and even I didn’t know some of the answers”.

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