Oprah Winfrey interviewed a few of the world's amazing kids on this weekend's show, and Akrit Jaiswal, from a remote village in India, was one of them. This 13-year-old child prodigy rose to fame at the tender age of 7 by performing an operation on an 8-year-old girl whose fingers were fused together after being burnt.

He became India's youngest university student and is currently studying for a BSc in Chandigarh University, India. His mother claims that he began reading Shakespeare at the age of 3 and now possesses books such as Gray's Anatomy, and textbooks on surgery, anaesthesia, anatomy, physiology, Cancer, and others. Akrit claims to have mastered them with his daily habit of studying for an hour.

He has an IQ of 146 - the highest recorded for those his age in India. He is also consulted by neighbors and people from surrounding area's regarding ailments, prescriptions and courses of treatments.

When Oprah asked him what his goal was for when he was older, he said he would like to take pain away from as many people as he could. He claims to be working on a cure for cancer for several years, based on theories of oral Gene therapy.