My name is Kishan. I had been a very studious pupil back in my school days. After scoring 86 percent in my senior secondary examination I participated in the national race of spewing out engineers. But an early affliction to the darkest miseries of alcohol and recreational drugs led my docility wane. My growing tastes in psychedelic bands such as Pink Floyd, The Flaming Lips made me a truant. Dreams of securing a job in the corporate world seemed distant. Pursuing a degree in MBA was the only act of purging left to clear myself of my self-taken path of career destruction. I secured a measly 5.67 per centile in the CAT. Hopes burnt down. But from the ashes rises a phoenix. Going through the pages of my trusted media friend, Punjab Besari, I found the glittering advertisements of a man, a visionary, who would prove to be the never extinguishing light of my emaciating career, Haridhan Chaudhuri.
Haridhan was born as one of the twin siblings of a Hakeem. As they grew, his brother fraudulently made a fortune out in Brussels, while he studied emotional quotient in Delhi. But the wealth always eluded him. Completing his formal education, being an entrepreneur that he was, he had some pioneering ideas that were way ahead of the time. But all of them were crushed beneath by one of his juggernaut of unshakable principles that would later be a highlight of his illustrious career, honesty. Time, however, had stored something different for him. His brother on his path to the ascetic ways of a sage, named Haridhan the sole successor of his vast wealth along with making Haridhan the guardian of his two daughters. With the holy union of marriage of his two nieces to the two leading film actors of India, Luv and Anashwar, Haridhan could now focus on chasing his childhood dream, opening an immense poultry farm. This would ultimately make him to write the best seller book, ‘Count your hatchlings, before they chicken’. There is even a movie that vaguely captures the excerpts from Haridhan’s life, Andaz Apna Apna. The tragic story behind Haridhan’s vow to never cut his hair and weakening eyesight is for another day.
…To Be Continued