We do run the gauntlet of receiving a reprimand when we send across a copy of Viswanathan Anand’s latest title, Lightning Kid: 64 Winning Lessons from the Boy Who Became Five-Time World Chess Champion (Hachette India) to Aashrita Guttula. The 14-year-old Chembur resident is busy preparing for her 8th standard finals. The only reason we don’t is that she is also an MSSA chess champion, and devoted to the game just as Anand was.

Aashrita Guttula reads the book. Pic Courtesy/Hachette India