Hyderabad:

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could recall a lot more than you can at present? It is possible! Your memory skills can be made better through focused training. And Rajendra S. Jain of Nellore, specialises in this field and has several of his students winning memory competitions too.

Most recently, his students, Chavi, Jay, Kusum and Moksh, all from Nellore bagged medals in National Memory Championship held in Mumbai.

Rajendra, himself, won a silver medal at the event and broke a national record in the adults’ category and finished all-India number three. While Chavi won a gold medal, Jay and Kusum were awarded silver and bronze medals in the kids’ category and Moksh secured a bronze medal in the junior category.

All of them are Class VIII students, of different schools in Nellore, and they have special permission from their schools for pursuing their academics using Rajendra’s training methods, memory systems, speed reading and mind maps.

Rajendra says that this system of teaching is prevalent in the UK. He now wants to prepare a curriculum of Memory Systems for Indian students as well. “The government should introduce memory as a subject in schools since it improves both imagination and academic skills,” says Rajendra, a science graduate who left his business of jewellery in 2009 to pursue memory techniques. His first accomplishment was a fifth place in the National Memory Championship held in Hyderabad in 2010.

“My next aim is to groom these kids to be the future grandmasters in mind sports,” says Rajendra, who was awarded the Grandmaster of India Award in 2013, becoming the second Indian to bag this honour after John Louis.

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