This 10-Year-Old Girl From Pune Was The Youngest Indian Speaker At TedYouth 2015 In NYC

Once, when someone asked an 8-year-old Ishita Katyal what she would want to do be when she grew up, she said, “I think this question has an inherent problem. We are telling children that it is okay to wait to do what you want. It diminishes or undermines what the kid is capable of doing today and his/her present identity.”


Ishita, now 10, became the youngest Indian to deliver a talk at the TEDYouth Conference in New York on Saturday, which, incidentally, happened to be Children's Day in India.
Ishita delivered her 4-minute talk talk titled ‘What do you want to be now’, challenging the system which thinks children are too small to make any difference to a packed audience.
When she was nine, Ishita attended an event organised by TEDx Pune, founded in 2013. The fifth-grader then organized a TEDx event at her school aimed at making things easier for people through use of technology.