A life in motion · Uttarakhand, India
01 / The Story
Some people collect titles. Lavish Madan collects beginnings — a world record at seventeen, a full-ride scholarship, a presidency, a startup — each one multiplying into the next.
Read his storyOne month into the college life he had dreamt of since childhood — studying electronics, away from home, conquering a fear of public speaking — Lavish Madan was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis. Three months of a bed. One sentence, remembered from early in his life: do not lose hope in any situation.
Six months later he was sponsored by Titan and Reliance. Today he keeps a daily discipline of back-strengthening and runs, and argues publicly for youth health — treating the diagnosis not as a verdict, but as one more challenge to outwork. The chapters below are what that sentence produced.
Each achievement is given its own room — because the story behind it matters as much as the headline.
On a July morning in 2023, a seventeen-year-old sat down in front of the Worldwide Book of Records and did something no teenager had done before: thirty-seven multiplication sums — three digits by one digit — in a single minute. Two world records now stand in Lavish Madan's name, each one the arithmetic of a year of unseen practice: every day, every method, every limit tested until the extraordinary looked effortless.
The grades only made him eligible. What the Reliance Foundation and Titan Company Limited backed with a full-ride scholarship was everything beyond them — the extra effort, the extra risk, the extra-curriculars — a profile of someone who had already been behaving like the person he intended to become.
He arrived at eleven, peering into other children's books for answers. Three years later he was winning national awards; at seventeen, a world record; at nineteen, hosting a six-hour state award ceremony before 1,200 people. Today, as UCMAS India's brand ambassador and an instructor across Uttarakhand, his weekends still belong to the classroom — a decade after his mother first enrolled him.
From Club Secretary to President, his Rotaract chapter has been built the way he builds everything — in public, with people. Charity Chase 2.0 turned a three-kilometre run into a fundraising movement for Project Kilkari and Project Parivartan, uniting Rotary, Rotaract and Interact generations for a single purpose.
The lockdown of 2020 produced, from a Grade-9 bedroom, a Social Distancing T-shirt whose alarm went viral across his city. Since then: INSPIRE Awards, the Atal Innovation Mission, the Microsoft Imagine Cup, a hand-gesture lighting system, and Spark X Youth — the startup he founded and runs as Head of Operations.
Public speaking was once his deepest fear — the school assembly where the lines vanished. He answered it at IIT Delhi: first competing in the Brandstorm at the New Delhi Global Youth Summit 2024, then returning as Head of Operations in 2025, hosting more than 2,500 participants in the rooms he had once only watched.
Then the stages grew borders. As part of the team behind the Dubai Global Youth Summit 2025 at the University of Birmingham Dubai — the first international youth summit in Dubai by a youth-led Indian organisation — he delivered a PR and marketing session to a hall of hundreds, and was tagged in more than eighty posts by the people it moved.
“Do not lose hope in any situation of your life.”
— the sentence Lavish Madan lives by