My 4-year-old son wants to become a chef. What are the top culinary schools in India or anywhere in the world?

Are you sure you meant 4, and not 14-year-old? For a four-year-old who wants to learn to cook, let him help in the kitchen. He can learn to roll dough, help clean, add spices, pour, and mix. Maybe add chopping when he's strong enough to hold a knife without cutting himself. If a 14-year-old wants to be a chef, he should get a part-time job washing dishes in a restaurant, and work his way up to bus-boy, salad, assistant, etc. He should NOT drop out of high school! Then, by the time he graduates from high school, he will have worked in a couple of restaurants and can decide if this is really the career for him. At that point he can get a full-time job in a restaurant. After a couple years working as a line cook, he is then ready to consider culinary school. Picking a culinary school is difficult - your now-grown son will want somewhere that is well-respected in the area he plans to cook. He should ask the chefs he respects (he will have met several by now). In the United States, the top 2 schools are the Culinary Institute of America and Johnson & Wales. But you don't have to go to those schools to become successful. Many great chefs don't attend any culinary school at all. Another key part of culinary training is the stage, or trail, which is like an internship: You work for free. Sometimes it's one shift. Sometimes it's several weeks. But you are expected to help out in every aspect of the kitchen in exchange for the experience. These are highly valuable, especially if you can get them in really top-notch kitchens. It's a great way to learn, and also to demonstrate your ability to other cooks. Finally, let me remind you that an aspiring chef still needs book-learning! Running a restaurant is not just about cooking! You need to be able to manage other people, run a budget (supplies, rent, taxes, payroll, utilities, emergencies), write a menu, do publicity, maintain sanitation. In the US you also need a strong understanding of laws regarding immigration, taxes, alcohol, music, and assorted city regulations.

If we all became what we wanted to be when four years old then half the world would be flying jets and the other half would be in space.