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He was called the \u201cyoungest headmaster in the world\u201d by BBC in October 2009, at the age of sixteen.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>He had begun teaching at nine years of age, mostly as a game, and then decided to continue teaching other children at a larger scale.<\/p>\n<p>That the school is tuition-free makes it affordable for the poor in this economically deprived area, so that the school has been recognised to have helped increase literacy rates in the area.In Murshidabad there had been no governmental or private schools. Pupils come from nearby villages and walk up to four kilometres in order to attend their lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Babar Ali succeeded in having his school recognized by the local authorities when he realised that this would entitle its pupils to the portion of free rice given to pupils at the end of the month by the government. Babar gets his inspiration from Swami Vivekananda.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Babar Ali won a prize from the program Real Heroes of the Indian English news channel CNN IBN for his work and was awarded the NDTV \u2018Indian of the Year\u2019 award and LITERACY HERO AWARD, BY ROTARY INDIA LITERACY MISSION and recently featured in \u2018FORBES ASIA\u2019 in their 30 under 30 list as a \u2018SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR\u2019, also recognised as the Literacy hero by international literacy association in their \u201c30 under 30\u201d list, Also received Education leadership award by BBC knowledge, His story became a part of the syllabus for the CBSE 10th standard English textbook, PUC English textbook for Govt. of Karnataka, and also in a curriculum in Europe. He was featured on Aamir Khan\u2019s TV show Satyamev Jayate in July 2012, and is regularly invited to speak at various conferences and forums all over the world. Babar is also a TED Fellow and an INK FELLOW AND INK Conference speaker and Wired fellow, Babar graduated from Berhampur Krishnath College (under Kalyani University in West Bengal, India) in English Honours, and Completed his M.A. in English Literature.<\/p>\n<p>The Karnataka government has included Babar\u2019s story in the prescribed English text for first year PU course. 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