"Google Boy" Kautilya To Study In Oxford University. Ability To Remember Read Once, Forever

• By Thetripurapost Desk, New Delhi
• Aug 28, 2025
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Kautilya Pandit aka Google Boy from Karnal in Haryana is in the news again. 

At the age of 5, he memorized the capital, currency, population and geographical details of countries around the world. 

He became famous as Google Boy. At the same age, he also sat on the hot seat in front of Amitabh Bachchan in the famous TV show "Kaun Banega Crorepati".

But now Kautilya is being discussed for a different reason. At the age of just 17, he is going to study Master of Physics from Oxford University in England. He will do research in cosmology, plasma physics, dark matter, particle theory and AI for humanity from Oxford University.

Kautilya received an offer from Balliol College, Oxford in August itself. The degree will start from October. 

He has also received a scholarship of Rs 25 lakh. Kautilya has passed 12th from BVN Senior Secondary School, Matalouda.

Kautilya Pandit was born in 2007 in Kohand village of Karnal. Grandfather Jai Kishan Sharma was a famous educationist. Shambhu Dayal used to teach in Sonipat school. Kautilya was about 4-5 years old. 

He memorized the atlas (collection of maps) given to him by the teacher in school in a few minutes. This is where the grandfather recognized the child's talent. Kautilya considers his grandfather his true friend and guru.

Father Satish Sharma says that Kautilya's biggest talent is his photographic memory, due to which he remembers anything forever after seeing or reading it once. 

Secondly, his talkative nature since childhood and the habit of constantly asking questions inspired him in search of knowledge. 

His curiosity is the reason for his extraordinary knowledge.

Psychology experts of Kurukshetra University declared after the test that Kautilya Pandit's intelligence level i.e. IQ level is in the range of 130 to 150. This level is considered exceptional and falls in the category of "gifted" to "genius". The IQ of the great scientist Albert Einstein is considered to be around 160.

He himself was a student of 8th standard, taught Physics-Chemistry to 11th standard students: Kautilya went to meet Anand Kumar, who started Super-30, in Patna. 

He shared information with the students there. He became a motivational speaker during his school days. 

During the Covid pandemic, he made the students of 9th and 11th standard cover the entire syllabus of Physics-Chemistry in just two months in his father Satish Kumar's school. Kautilya himself was a student of 8th standard then

Media started publishing about Kautilya. He was called the Google Boy. In 2013, at the age of 5, Kautilya got a call from Kaun Banega Crorepati. Amitabh Bachchan himself picked him up in his lap and made him sit on the hot seat. This made him famous overnight. Due to this extraordinary ability  he got the title of 'Bal Manishi' (child prodigy). 

The then Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda gave him a prize of ₹10 lakh. Many schools offered him to teach in their schools.

 Kautilya Pandit has the highest number of interview views in India and abroad. Kautilya says that all the videos of his interviews on YouTube have a total of 128 million views. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at the second spot with 46 million views. Kautilya has 2 lakh likes on YouTube and 99 thousand likes on Facebook. 

However, he is not very active on social media. Kautilya likes dancing, swimming, playing chess and writing poetry.

Kautilya Pandit , who has read more than 100 books - Ancient books, has read more than 100 books so far. These include books on science, history, social philosophy and popular science. He has read many world-famous books on physics and mathematics. These include Feynman Lectures on Physics, Quantum Mechanics (D.J. Griffiths), Mechanics (Kleppner and Kolenkov) and Optics (Eugene Hecht). He has read India After Gandhi, Discovery of India as well as Bhagat Singh's 'Why am I an atheist'.

Chanakya is an ideal, Kautilya keeps a tuft of hair like him. He considers the great economist of ancient India Chanakya as his ideal and wants to be a person with sharp intellect like him. He also keeps a tuft of hair on his head like him. 

It is interesting that Chanakya's name has also been Kautilya. Kautilya is a pure vegetarian and also has religious faith.

Kautilya also has two sisters, Mridul and Diksha. Mridul is studying MSc, while Diksha is doing Aerospace Engineering on scholarship in abroad.