Assam: World's youngest professor Soborno Isaac Bari visits Kokrajhar

The world's youngest professor Soborno Isaac Bari today visited  Kokrajhar in Assam's Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) on a two day long programme. 

Today, Bari attended the function of the 2nd Inter College Youth Festival organized by the Bodoland University. The youngest professor in the world interacted with with Professors, Lecturers and students of different educational Institutions of Kokrajhar.

Over 5000 students, Professors and Lecturers from different educational institutions including CIT, BB Engineering College, Kokrajhar Medical College and school children partcipated in the interaction session.

Professor Bari will be attending a huge interaction session on Monday that is being organized by BTC Education department at Bodofa Cultural Complex in Kokrajhar. 

Speaking to the media after today's interactive session, Professor Bari said that he is trying to engage in the future generations with regards to raising interest and proper application of maths and science. 

"I think maths and science are very important in our modern world if you want to know what's going on behind the scenes. So you should learn it as quickly as possible," said the youngest professor in the world. 

Born on April 9, 2012, in New York, Soborno is a Bengali-American prodigy and has authored the book called ‘The Love’ in which he has tried to demolish the prejudice and hatred that stems out from religious differences and biases.

Soborno is the recipient of the ‘Global Child Prodigy Award’ from Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi. At the age of 4, Soborno had received recognition from former President Barack Obama for his accomplishments in math and science. At the age of 6, he had received recognition from Harvard University for his problem-solving abilities and was accepted into New York City’s gifted and talented program.