This New Delhi chaiwalla has written more than 25 books. Watch Laxman Rao as he chronicles his journey from being a child who loved reading to working as a labourer in Bhopal to starting a roadside tea stall in New Delhi — without giving writing a break. ️
Category
🦄
CreativityTranscript
00:00Wait for it!
00:01He was born after 50 years and his life is after his death because this is not a simple
00:07task that can be achieved so easily.
00:11He was born after 50 years and his life is after his death because this is not a simple
00:14task that can be achieved so easily.
00:40He was born after 50 years and his life is after his death because this is not a simple
00:50task that can be achieved so easily.
00:53He was born after 50 years and his life is after his death because this is not a simple
01:00task that can be achieved so easily.
01:03He was studying till 8th standard and I was studying Gulshan Nanda ji's Upanyas.
01:10After studying Gulshan Nanda ji's Upanyas, I got an inspiration that one day I will also
01:15become Gulshan Nanda ji.
01:24After that I started working in a mill.
01:27After that I started working in a mill.
01:29After that I started working in a mill.
01:32I worked for 3 months and earned Rs.90 and came to Delhi.
01:35I worked in ITU in Delhi and started cleaning utensils in Dhaba.
01:40After that I started selling Paan Bidi Cigarette near ITU.
01:47This is a story from 1977.
01:49I used to go to Delhi Gate and buy and read books.
01:54From there I came to know about great writers like Munshi Premchand Sir, Chandrashekhar
01:58Padhya, Shakespeare, Lenin, Gorki, Marx and I started reading their books.
02:10I took two Upanyas and went to Prakash.
02:13Prakash gave me a get out.
02:15I felt bad at that time but I thought that no, that man has cured me.
02:22I bow to him.
02:23Because of him I have written 25 books.
02:26I have published 18 books.
02:28And I have achieved such a great position.
02:39And I tell the coming generation not to expect anything, not to expect anything.
02:44Keep doing your work, keep writing, keep publishing.
02:5340 years ago it used to cost 40-50 thousand rupees to publish a book.
02:57Or it used to cost 15-20 thousand rupees.
02:59But today you can publish a book easily for 1000 rupees.
03:02The internet has come.
03:03Big companies like Flipkart, Amazon sell books.
03:07You can do it even at home.
03:09You can see the world in Google.
03:16And I struggled a lot to become a writer.
03:18And I struggled a lot to become a writer.
03:21I tried to leave it in between.
03:23It didn't happen.
03:24If I had known earlier that this is the work of struggle, it is not so easy.
03:28Maybe I wouldn't have done it.