I believe that endurance is a virtue for entrepreneurs and advocate it in bold letters. Today’s young generation suggests having an exit plan in hand while starting a new business or start up. Start-up is accepted as a humble word where you can start one after another if an earlier one fails. During my entrepreneur meetings I meet a number of young generation entrepreneurs who are relaxed, optimistic, well aware, well read and enthusiastic about their embarked journey. Though I am also a new entrepreneur who started Prisha Publications out of my passion for writing and eager to see my works on published papers.

Here I will like to share an extreme example of innocent endurance which continued for many decades. I have been writing since a tender age. Those days, about 44/46 years back ( I am 56 now) we had this gentleman who was a newspaper carrier in our mohalla. We used to call him Murli chacha. He, a tall, slim, handsome, well dressed, ever happy person in his mid-thirties was like a brother to my father. I asked him excitedly, “will you get my poem printed in newspaper chacha? He said yes with a broad smile and walked back quickly to the next subscriber to deliver the newspaper. He was a messiah to my tender mind. I wrote my short Hindi poem on the paper of my note book and gave it to him to get printed. 

I always was viewing the children’s corner for my poem anywhere hidden, but never found. He too never mentioned that it will never get printed as he is just a carrier.  Maybe he did not want to slay my dream or his high respect in my eyes. Though I laugh today and wonder about the innocence of those utopian social blissful lives free of the present social media filled technical age where publishing a poem for a child is at finger tips. Today, I am sure that the desire of seeing my name in the newspaper has guided me in a divine way to write my books and later founding a publishing house.