MBA graduates outdaring traditional courses to go along with their passion for writing.

 

MBA graduates outdaring traditional courses to go along with their passion for writing.

 

Following your passion takes courage and you never know what will happen. The quote is true and many ambitious people do that.

 

A boy in the management school, studying to develop his business skills eventually discovers his hidden passion -writing ,it seems like a movie script , right? But there are several real life stories  based on this tract, where MBA pursuing graduates defied traditional career courses to follow their hidden passion of becoming an author.

 

Many well known authors like Ravinder Singh,Ashwin Sanghi, Ravi Subrananian  are few among the several authors that followed their passion of writing out during the traditional MBA courses.

 

Ravinder Singh is a software engineer and an Indian author of nine novels — I Too Had a Love Story, Can Love Happen Twice?,This Love That Feels Right,Like it Happened Yesterday, Your Dreams are Mine Now,Love Stories That Touched My Heart, Tell Me A Story, Will You Still Love Me and The Belated Bachelor Party..

 

All his novels have been published by some of the leading publishing houses . Penguin and Harper Collins are among them. Also he had started his own venture into the publishing industry- Black Ink.

 

I too Had a Love Story- this bestseller is based on Singh's real life. Ravinder Singh wrote this,his first novel  while being a student at Indian School of Business. Singh says writing gave him the fame that his highly paying IT job never gave. Nobody knew what he do in an IT firm. But being an author the world recognises and appreciates your work. People know Ravinder Singh for the books he has written and not for his coded programs at Microsoft.

 

He started his career as an IT professional in Infosys, but eventually his urge towards his passion of  writing gave him his deserved fame.Singh always wanted to create his prominent identity and his passion of writing fulfilled it. He also says that the IT technologies will be upgraded every now and then, but the work he did as an author will always last.

 

Another bestselling author  Ashwin Sanghi,is an Indian writer in the fiction-Thriller genre. He is the author of three best-selling novels- The Rozabal Line, The Krishna Key and Chanakya's Chant .

 

Sanghi pursued his MBA from Yale University. Sticking true to his specific career path, he joined his family business for earnings. Sanghi was a keen reader, he grew up reading a new book every week and used to give it's written feedback to his grandfather.

 

Until the year 2005 he was only into reading.His visit to Rozabal, a shrine in the heart of Srinagar urged him to discover the hidden author in himself.

The visit impacted him so much that in twelve months he read  fifty-seven books which led him to have  multiple theories swimming in his head.Later on his wife's suggestion he wrote his first book- 'The Rozabal Line’.

Then he continued his writings and in 2021 he stepped back from business to pursue full time writing.

 

Being a handsome earning author requires lots of patience and  time .Writing can be a part time job but earning a livelihood only from choosing writing as a career is quite risky. Journalism, editing, translation or copywriting to supplement their income are some other avenues that writers turn to.

 

Ravinder Singh and  Ashwin Sanghi did eventually dare to quit their IT jobs and business respectively and focused full-time on writing. Other MBAs-turned-authors chose to be more careful.Mr Ravi Subramanian is one of them.He's an IIM, Bangalore alumnus.

 

Ravi Subramanian is the author of bestselling banking thrillers like “The Incredible Banker”, “The Bankster” and “Bankerupt” and also is a banker by profession.He is one of the authors who decided to hold on to their lucrative jobs that they landed post their MBA degrees.

 

He desires to be known after years of his death. He has the view that people might come and go but their works, say -books will remain in shelves of libraries for years in their memory.

Subramanian is currently the CEO of a non-banking financial company.

 

He says that opting writing as a career decreases creativity. The deadline and time limits exploit the creativeness of writing and give it a feel of burden.

 

Bhagat,A former student of IIT, Delhi, and IIM, Ahmedabad wrote his debut that inspired Chetan Bhagat himself , and several other closeted writers of management schools across the country. Bhagat wrote several novels.Including few that were also taken in bollywood films- Two States, Half Girlfriend, The Three Mistakes of my Life.

 

Other authors with management background are  Amish Tripati for Shiva Trilogy, Durjoy Dutta for - Of Course I love You, Till I Find Someone Better!

 

For management background authors ,their time at management schools only added to the great success of their books.

 

"The vast difference between an MBA author and a non-MBA author is that we go about ruthlessly and shamelessly marketing our books" ,states Subramanian.

Also he supports their marketing attitude by adding that they deserve it as writing a novel in a year is not everyone's cup of tea and it deserves to be shamelessly marketed.

Sangi says,"My MBA made me a very organized person and I approach each novel almost as a business plan."

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