Adirai a five-year-old girl can faultlessly narrate the entire Kamba Ramayanam, the Tamil version of the Indian epic. She can interpret several verses in an erudite manner and can draw real-life parallels from them. The National Association for Gifted Children in the United States defines giftedness as “Gifted individuals are those who demonstrate outstanding levels of aptitude (defined as an exceptional ability to reason and learn) or competence (documented performance or achievement in top 10% or rarer) in one or more domains”. General intellectual ability is measured by tests of general aptitude or intelligence with scores ranging in the 95-98 percentile or two standard deviations above the norm. In terms of an intelligence quotient (IQ), the gifted are those individuals having an IQ of 130 or higher.