BHAAG! This one book is not meant for a run-through. Slow down; pick a cup of tea followed by many more and sip through the stories behind entrepreneurial journey kicked off by young Samaritans in different fields.
From young Priyanka getting people and corporate firms set up urban farms to Priyadeep making institutions take notice of the significance behind activity based education for school kids or even Swati who’s entrepreneurial bug stung her at a Bangalore red light, I promise you not yet another collection of people profiles, but a read that probes more into ‘reasons’ behind the making of these young and inspirational young India.
As a normal reader and having read books like ‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish’, ‘Connecting the Dots’, ‘I have a Dream’ and the latest in my collection being ‘Follow Every Rainbow’ – all by Rashmi Bansal; I approached BHAAG with a set of presumptions. As if I knew what lay ahead. As if I was all set for this journey. As if it was ‘yet-another’ book but with different names indexed.
I was wrong.
I have this habit of never skipping the initial few pages of any book where you find not just the table of contents but the author’s note, something that has always inspired me. I always love to know more about the person behind the stories. It makes you visualise them narrating the stories to you themselves while you go through each words penned down.
Ganesh V seems to be that person who has pre-decided to nail it down even before he started. Hey, I am not writing about the book yet. But when you read his note, you have already scaled your expectations just out of the honest passion. Honest because it doesn’t sounds compulsive, and passionate because there’s nothing more enthusing than an honest author’s note.
Like any other book profiling stories behind the making of entrepreneurs, this one takes you through the journey quite peacefully making you a part of the scene from the very start. It nowhere goes vague and is a neat impactful compilation meant to put forward the best and the candid front of each person profiled.
Having penned down 11 such stories myself via a Coffee Table Book project that compiled entrepreneurs of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhad, I get the very feel of that itch when you are trying hard to keep the essence of both the person and his journey intact and unadulterated with your words – if not handled with care. This one gets it just right. As I said, neat and compelling.
Why you should read?
Because it’s not every day that you hear a girl set up a business just to help a poor family and then scale it up to win Government recognitions. Because it’s not every day you learn the tactics of a pitch made all unprepared, yet come out winning proving the guts. Because it’s very rare to be a part of the unrealistic or let me say, quite realistic situations that gave birth to an idea; sprung a brain into action; got adrenaline rushing – all while others were keen on looking for jobs, a highly paid one.
Get your hands on it.
Read for yourself.
Who knows what makes you kick yourself hard and pursue your own lost dreams.
