Nine-year-old achiever

This nine-year-old student of Jamshedpur’s Carmel Junior College has been garnering a number of prizes and certificates of merit over the past five years. Meet Vir Bugli, model, sportsman, yoga practitioner, art enthusiast and proficient student. His mother Jasmine informed Parsiana via e-mail that her son’s run began in 2005-2006 when he won the Bangiya Sangeet Parishad Distinction for Drawing. His painting skills have also earned him the Tata Infotech Drawing Certificate grade A+ in 2006-2007 and the Aegon Religare Certificate for distinctive performance in painting in 2009.

Vir Bugli: talented all-rounder

In 2006 Bugli won the Horlicks wiz kid award for best public speaker. In the following year he brought home a certificate for achievement in English, Environmental Science and Hindi. The next honors to come his way were the Edu-care certificate for excellent effort for a noble cause in 2008 and a certificate for the best endeavor in 2009. He won a second prize in the Horlicks wiz kid award for yoga in 2009. As a child Bugli was "very photogenic” and appeared in some local print advertisements, his mother mentions. An excellent footballer and cricket player, Bugli has a very flexible body, as he practices yoga daily, she adds.