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Hyderabad’s Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, who broke India’s most famous mathematician Shakuntala Devi’s record as the fastest human calculator in the world will be featured on History TV18. Bhanu Prakash clinched the first-ever gold for India in the Mental Calculation World Championship at Mind Sports Olympiad held in London last year along with many other accolades. Bhanu
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2020 isn’t a year any one of us is likely to forget. The pandemic, lockdown, slowdown, layoffs….the bad news continued till the end of the year with reports of the virus mutating and becoming more transmissible.
However, in a year where COVID-19 dominated headlines, a few people made headlines for their talent, efforts, kindness, and more.
Centenarians and octogenarians like the 104-year-old ‘Miracle Mom’ and 85-year-old ‘Warrior Aaji’ proved that age is just a number. Meanwhile, a 14-year-old Indian-American girl has found a potential treatment for COVID-19.
There was also Neelakanta Bhanu Prakash who became the fastest human calculator, beating Shakuntala Devi, whose life story was filmed and screened on OTT platform Amazon Prime Video.