Barabani(Asansol): A three-year-old toddler, Anurag Mondal, who hails from Asansol's Barabani village, entered the India Book of Records for his uncanny ability to recite the Gayatri Mantra, shlokas of Bhagavad Gita and the Maha Mrityunjaya mantra in Sanskrit accent and also name the capitals of all the countries worldwide, including the names of chemical elements of fruits, flowers, birds and colours in a muffled voice.
His father, Kanchan Mondal, is a civic volunteer by profession, and his mother, Rita Devi, is a worker at the panchayat. Interestingly, Anurag enrolled at a nursery school in his village last month. However, long before that, his parents noticed that the toddler possessed an 'elephantine memory' as he could remember everything after hearing it once.
And so from then on, his parents started teaching him various aspects, from religious verses to chemical elements, the capital of the country, and more. Also, he can tell names of fruits, flowers, and birds by looking at pictures.
