A young girl in India badly burned as a toddler,; her fingers had fused together and curled into a knotted ball. Her shepherd family could not afford surgery, ; A young boy called the child surgeon. Akrit Jaswal was only seven years old H e operated, successfully, on the eight year old girl to release her fingers. Akrit Jaswal had an I.Q. of 146, the highest I.Q. of any boy his age in India, a country of over one billion people. He has focussed this phenomenal intelligence on medicine and now, at the age of twelve, claims to be on the verge of discovering a cure for cancer. An early developer, Akrit was walking and talking by the time he was 10 months old. He was reading and writing by two, and [B]reading Shakespeare, in English, by the time he was five[/B], and is now talking about his theories for oral gene therapy in the fight against cancer. He is studying for a science degree at Chandigarh College and, at twelve years of age, is the youngest student ever accepted by an Indian University. . this precocious young man is still convinced that he will find a cure for cancer.
