Meet KaviPrasad, an engineer turned lyricist of national and international acclaim, who is now working on his script for a movie. He pens short stories, poems, drama etc. Many of his creative works have gone viral in social media. An engineer by profession and holds a leadership position in an IT company of high repute. He also happens to run a company of his own.
Here is a summary of our conversation with KaviPrasad.
- The Analogy of rubber plantations – It takes time to see results.
- Perspectives about work at a young age and how he helped to bring in an additional income and what is takes. The time you need to give and about being paid.
- Life goal being a kid – to come out of poverty – study well, earn a good job.
- The teacher who inspired to write poems – each one of us have a mentor who sees our capability and encourages us.
- The conflict at age 15 – to be a career aspirant like everyone or be a writer.
- Continued with writing till age of 17 and then completely stopped as he joins engineering college.
- Successful at work, being an engineer and how the Germany travel inspired him to write again.
- In 2012, planned to quit after 5 years. Quits job with no back-up plans.
- Financial stability is important, your creativity stops the moment you start to starve. However, it is very important to define how much money we need.
- When one chases ones dream, money follows.
- Never stop dreaming, work towards it – though the path is difficult, the fruits are sweet.
