Mohammad Azharuddin Badekhanavar - Simplicity Is the Only Key to Remain Successful and to Even Achieve Greater Heights

Mohammad Azharuddin Badekhanavar, a 16 Years old young National and International Record Holder student, hailing from a small district Bagalkot of Karnataka, is a grandmaster of Information Technology at such a small age. In April 2020, he set a World Record in the Information Technology category for programming ‘Most undetectable Android and Computer Viruses’.

1. Tell us more about your background and journey. 

Well, I come from a background that taught me the importance of goals and success. My journey has not been all ‘smiles and sunshine’ but I guess that’s when you learn the most beautiful things. 

I completed my Class 10 from an eminent institution of our country ‘Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan’ and I’m presently studying in Class 11 at ‘Expert Group of Institutions (Mangalore)’. I started taking an interest in Computers and Technology at a very early age, that is when I was of 8 years. 

I just used to sit in front of the Computer screen for hours together, playing with every option I saw, and doing so I have even crashed my PC several times at that age, and eventually, I used to get scoldings from my parents. But I never gave up! People usually learn from their own mistakes and probably I was knowing that. 

Soon I grew up along with the technological knowledge and later my achievements and glory started spreading all over. I used to see schools buying Animated content from various companies, which I didn’t like! I believed that access to such wonderful animated content should be available for students free of cost so that it would be useful to strengthen the concepts. 

And I believe in doing it myself first rather than expecting it from others. So I started my own YouTube channel at the age of 10 where I uploaded Animated Educational Videos for Classes 6-10, which helped a lot of students and now presently my YouTube channel has 84,000+ views. 

My Educational materials were circulated in almost all the Kendriya Vidyalayas and soon my work in the field of education started being recognized by various Higher officials of KVS and in the year 2018 and 2019, I was invited to take training courses and sessions for TGT & PGT teachers at KVS ZIET Mysore about Creation of Educational E-Materials. This is how my journey of ‘Teaching Teachers’ began. 

2. How did you rise up to your position and how can a student aspiring the same, approach it? 

Purpose, Passion, Confidence, Self Determination, and Hard Work are the most important ingredients for success. And I believe, these ingredients have raised me up to this position. 

I feel that the race to become successful in the present world begins the moment we enter into this world and the race remains until we enter the grave leaving inspirational footprints behind for many and that will actually be possible only by our noble works throughout our life.

 A lot of people in the world are born and are dying daily, but only a few remain in the heart of people even after leaving this world. So I will consider myself successful whenever I will be one of the legends. 

Students must have clarity on WHAT their main goal in life is. They should be aware of WHY they want to achieve it? A lack of purpose can often be the only thing holding you back from success. 

Because when you’re not invested in the REASON you’re working towards a goal, there’s little to shield you from inevitable distractions and demotivation. 

3. What's it like to juggle between a leadership role and normal college life? 

I feel that both should be balanced and any one of them should not be mixed over the other. I always like being normal with my friends and college mates keeping my achievements and leadership role aside. 

I believe that simplicity is the only key to remain Successful and to even achieve greater heights. 

4. What have been some of your biggest challenges and learnings from what you do? 

Time is the biggest challenge of my life. I have got a lot of work to do each day. And I even aspire to do a lot of things every day without wasting even a single minute. But I always end up with a shortage of time. 

Every morning I think that I have just got these 24 hours of life and then I start my day determining that I have to give my 100% today and I have to do everything today. And this always keeps me motivated. 

5. Do you enjoy the kind of influence you hold at such a young age? 

When you do things that set you apart from the crowd and build your own niche, there will be people who will look up to you, follow you, and get inspired by your success stories. There is that influence one creates by default by excelling in their own niche. 

So yes, I do love the power of being able to impart my knowledge to people and influence them in every small way possible. And I even love inspiring youngsters. To be honest, instead of looking for role models, I try to become one and even I’m working hard day and night for it. 

I would love to be an inspiration for people around me, for people struggling, for people with big goals, for people with big dreams, and for people with strong determination to succeed. 

6. How do your parents look at you participating in extracurricular activities? 

My parents have always encouraged me to take part in extracurricular activities and I think that’s why I have more than 150 certificates in 10 years of my school journey that is from Class 1-10. 

My parents have always fulfilled my needs and have given me lots of Joy and Happiness and I think that’s the backbone of my successful life. 

7. How can we encourage more young students such as yourself to take-up leadership roles? 

I think the youth of this generation has defined Technology in their own definitions and are following those self-made definitions which are resulting in many problems and failures in their life. 

Nowadays, every young student is having a smartphone/laptop but most of them are using them for chatting, gaming, and surfing. They are unaware of the feats they can achieve with the proper and positive usage of Technology. 

So I want to appeal to the youth to make use of Technology adequately, to learn various programming languages, to play with Technology to improve it rather than wasting time playing Video games. 

Today, the definition of a Smart person is changed. The one who is brilliant in Technology is the one who is called Smart nowadays. So I just want all the youngsters of my nation to be called Smart, and that is only possible when Youngsters will understand the importance of Information Technology and will take interest in pursuing their dreams in this field.

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Mohammad Azharuddin Badekhanavar, a 16 Years old young National and International Record Holder student, hailing from a small district Bagalkot of Karnataka, is a grandmaster of Information Technology at such a small age.

In April 2020, he set a World Record in the Information Technology category for programming ‘Most undetectable Android and Computer Viruses’.

In November 2020, he set records in the India Book of Records and Asia Book of Records and got the title, ‘Youngest To Conduct Training Sessions for Teachers’ for helping out more than 4000 teachers all over the country in the Pandemic.

He has successfully cleared many International level Cyber Security examinations and is one of the Cyber Security Experts of our country. Moreover, he has also attended and represented our country in many International Cyber Security conferences. He is also a Scholar of many Computer Programming languages and is a certified developer.

Mohammad Azharuddin Badekhanavar
16 Years old young National and International Record Holder

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Interviewed By - Sandeep Virothu