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Against All Odds: Benny Prasad (Full Transcript)

Full text of musician Benny Prasad’s talk titled ‘Against All Odds’ at TEDxIISUniversity conference.

Notable quote from this talk:

“There is so much to life than just a sheet of marks card. There’s so much to life than just money.”

Listen to the MP3 Audio here:

TRANSCRIPT:

Benny Prasad – Gospel musician and instrumental guitarist

Now you can start the clock please, and is there a clock anywhere, so we have to go by faith, not by sight here. Okay. Normally we get to see the clock, and it’s going to be interesting to keep.

Morning everyone. Come on, I got up at 4:00 in the morning to come here. Good morning everyone. It’s a joy to be here this morning, and I want to thank all the organizers for giving me this amazing privilege to finally come to Jaipur.

It took me after traveling to 257 countries to come and step here for the first time in my life. And it’s a short visit, but I hope to come back with my wife.

And I’m amazed every time I get an opportunity to speak at events like this is… what has gone wrong in our country? You know, this is the irony of our Indian educational system. My wife and myself… my wife is from Nagaland, and I’m from Bangalore; we both are educationally compatible, because my wife is nine-standard appeared, and I am 10-standard failed.

And could not really do well, even though my father was an amazing… he was an amazing scientist, who was an aerospace scientist actually, and being the first-born in the family, I was expected to become like him.

Now how can you medically prove that every firstborn son in the family will have the same brains like the father, with the same ideas like the father, with the same attractions to subjects like the father?

But this is the saddest part in our culture: Our dreams are not valuable, but what the society thinks is the most valuable thing. Society will always give you ideas, but they will never pay for your bills.

And it was hard for me when I grew up.