A True Rags-To Riches Story-A Inspirational sucess Story

Do you think that its hard to fight from poverty Here is sucess story of a teenager who was fighting poverty with his luck that changed his luck and today he is an successful photographer..

Vicky Roy

Vicky Roy has taken his street dreams to the pinnacle of its reality through the trials and tribulations of being a dhaba-boy and a coolie and fighting against the pain and pathos of grinding poverty, literally with no materialistic possessions except for irresistible aspiration, relentless hard work and determination to live a better life with bright future prospects. In spite of having to face battered circumstances that punctuated and paused his life, Vicky continues to inspire thousands of hopeless street-kids to take on their street dreams by overcoming every obstacle in their lives. Today, at the age of 25, he is an accomplished photographer.

Despite being born to appallingly poor parents in Purulia district of West Bengal, he dreamt of living a better life with better opportunities. In pursuit of his dream, at the tender age of 13, Vicky ran away from home and set off to Delhi with 800 rupees that his mother had given him to buy cement for the ongoing construction work in the house. Reality was far cruel and tough than his previous life in the claustrophobic town and he found himself to be in the midst of nowhere. Instead of returning he started his life as a rag picker rummaging through the mountains of garbage and dragging out the damaged plastic products. But very soon he faced the troubles against the local ruffians who started harassing him and snatching his earnings. Disappointed and frustrated, he took up a job as a dish washer at a local café where he worked throughout the day only for 50 rupees and spent days either without food or having guests’ leftovers. It continued until a gentle lady took pity on him and gave him the address of a children’s NGO the Salam Baalak Trust (SBT), which would take care of deprived and abandoned kids. Finally, he found a secured shelter and foods. Apart from attending the school, he would take care of the NGO’s young boys and help them with their homework.


His passion and dream emerged in 2004 while serving as an assistant to a British photographer documenting the atrocious lives of Delhi’s street kids. During the time he learnt several tricks of fine photography besides fixing the tripod for photographer, loading camera rolls, and arranging the boisterous street-kids together for a superior photo pose, and travelling through the streets of Delhi. Soon Vicky picked up photography as his profession. Street life and street kids became his favorite themes. His 25-odd photographs were selected by The India Habitat Gallery in New Delhi and titled it ‘Street Dreams’ and was sponsored by the British High Commission and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID). He could sell seven photos at the exhibition, each for Rs 10,000 from which he purchased a digital camera for better photography and is now preparing for his second exhibition entitled ‘The Widows of India’.

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GlobalScholars-An Inspiring sucess Story

 This is an Inspirational Stories I have Read And liked it greatly since not only he is from chennai but the main thing is he educating other people with what he gained and Learned  from poverty..
Here is the rags-to-riches story of an extremely talented boy from a small village in Tamil Nadu who has risen to be the chief executive  officer of a company in Seattle, USA.
It Is an Inspiring Story Through Sheer Hardwork,passion,education Anyting can be possible.
It is also the story of how Kalyana Raman Srinivasan, who was so indigent that he had to study under a streetlight, but then managed to score excellent marks, rose in life and became today's Kal Raman.



At every turn in his life, he took the difficult path and it turned out to be the right one and in the right direction. His rise to the top is

more dramatic than a thriller. Today, he is a very successful entrepreneur and the founder-CEO of GlobalScholar.

Kal Raman was born and brought up in a small village called Mannarakoil in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. It was a comfortable normal middle class life for him and his siblings as his father was a Tahasildar there.
But the sudden death of his father at the age of 45 changed everything overnight.
Kal was 15 then. "My mother got a pension of Rs 420 a month and you can imagine how tough it is to educate four children and feed five
mouths with Rs 420?"

He was 15 years old and had 420 Rs for his family  in which he had to meet up the basic neds of life.
Hi life changed dramatically after his father's death. The family moved from the rented house to a hut that had no proper water supply orelectricity. Kal Raman remembers, "All of us used to study under the streetlight and, thank god, the streetlights used to work those days! MGR (M G Ramachandran) was the chief minister then. We had to sell the plates to buy rice to eat and my mother used to give us rice in our hands. That bad was our situation."

But his mother, who had studied till the 8th standard, was very particular that her children studied. "All our relatives wanted my elderbrother to stop studying and take up the small job offered by the government but my mother wanted him to continue studying."

"Then they wanted me to learn typewriting and shorthand so that I could get some job after the 10th  standard. But mother said, 'My children are going to get the best education I can offer. Education is our salvation.' She was my hero for her vision and she still is my hero."

He didn't know why he used to tell his mother, "One day I will give you so much money that you will not know what to do with it!"  After Years Passed He Did Exactly!!

But, what’s inspiring is his life before he went to US as a TCS software engineer. His father passed away when he was barely 15, and he had to finish his schooling with the meager pension that his mother got. He was a brilliant student. In Tamil Nadu where Kal is from, your brilliance is measured based on whether you get a seat in either engineering or medical college. He got both. With poverty weighing heavily on him, he had to struggle through his days at Guindy College of Engineering in Chennai and eventually landed a job at Tata
Consulting Engineers in Mumbai. He attended the first day of his work with no shoes on. His manager was not impressed and asked him to come in shoes from next day. “I said I couldn’t,” he told Rediff. ”This the manager construed as arrogance “How could you talk like this?” he asked me. I said, “Sir, it is not that I don’t want to, but I can’t afford to buy shoes.”  His manager then asked him where he was
staying. Raman replied: “Dadar Railway station”.

The Manager the provided him with one month salary in advance And helped him to find a friend place to stay.Then his life started to blossom.

Yet, to read that Kal Raman might occupy the corner office at Groupon following the exit of its founder Andrew Mason was heartening. In
the stories on contenders for CEO post, journalists mention Raman’s experience in companies such as Walmart, eBay and Amazon, and his strengths as an operations guy. 

Raman came to global attention when he became Groupon’s COO last year.He is been asked for CEO Of Groupon Whether He will Take Or not thats The Question??

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