Dhaval Bathia is an Indian educationist and author. He wrote his first bookHow to Top Exams and Enjoy Studies when he was 17 years old. His books have been translated and published in more than 15 languages.
Early life
Born in a business family from Mumbai, he was an able student. He did his schooling with St. Anne's High School, Orlem Malad. He graduated from Narsee Monjee College and then undertook his ACS and LLB studies. During his early college life, he came across Vedic Mathematics, a set of techniques designed by an ancient Indian spiritual guru. The techniques helped him calculate complex mathematical calculations with ease. Fascinated by these he started spreading them amongst his teachers and colleagues, but he met with skepticism. To overcome this, he began conducting workshops and seminars in schools and colleges and they proved to be popular
Breakthrough
During one such training session, a senior journalist from India's reputed The Times of India happened to witness how Dhaval could remember the entire calendar of 100 years in 5 minutes and how he could accurately remember the names and phone numbers of all the three hundred odd people present in the auditorium. The very next day, the newspaper carried an article branding him as a WHIZ KID. What followed was tremendous media and industry attention. He was then reckoned as a Mathematical Genius and a Wizard with numbers and memory.
Current life
In the years to follow, Dhaval's techniques have been implemented by over a million students in India, Kuwait, Qatar, US, UK, Mauritius, Nepal, Oman, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and other countries. He is awarded as Young Achiever by Rotary International and 'Honorary Patron' by the Indo Kuwait Friendship Society for his exceptional contribution to society. Dhaval currently holds the Guinness World Record for teaching 'how to memorize vocabulary words' to maximum number of students. His name also appears in the Limca Book of Records for teaching in the maximum schools across the world. Dhaval was one of the Top 50 finalists of the million dollar 'Global Teacher Prize' considered the Nobel Prize for educationists. He is currently working on a unique mission to educate over one million girls from rural areas in South Asia and Africa who are denied quality education. He has written five books:
