At heart, he wants to be a charted accountant but conjures up his genie whenever he wants to ride high on imagination. And when he did, he won a prize for creative writing at the national level.
Lakshmi Narasimhan of Vikaasa School bagged third prize at the senior-level contest in the Indian School Certificate category held at Atul in Gujarat.
“Creative writing is fantastic and fun when you muse and start assimilating the related points to make it a more interesting read,” says this plus-one student. “Each participant was monitored by separate invigilators in separate halls. Students from 10 states took part in the event.” Though he is happy with numbers and calculations, Lakshmi Narasimhan found his love for language and creative writing when he won spelling-bee contests in Standard VIII. From then on, he has been nurturing his love for language.
Even in school examinations, he opts for descriptive and narrative questions instead of argumentative, reflective and pictorial questions. He believes that he presents his ideas and thoughts in a well-manicured way in writing.
He says that he often ruminated on off-the-wall ideas, besides browsing through the dictionary for vocabulary. For style, he decided to follow Ashwin Sanghi, author of Rozebel Line and Chanakya Chant. He also could not escape the charm of Harry Potter.
At the regional level, Lakshmi Narasimhan imagined himself as God and recorded the Almighty's impressions on the world He had created. He bagged the first prize.
And at the national level, the organizers gave him the topic “What is life if full of care and no time to stand and stare?” Initially, Lakshmi Narasimhan had the idea of linking the storyline of the latest flick ‘7aum Arivu' and bio-war but later decided to connect the given hypothetical situation to the real-life political scenario. “Though I was allowed to use the library for reference, I stuck to my own story as I didn't want to waste time,” he says.
The story goes like this: the defence minister of the country burns the midnight oil to probe the prime minister's assassination. Soon, he himself is assassinated. Terrorists kill him as if they want to give defence minister a peaceful sleep.
This piece of a story won Lakshmi Narasimhan third prize, while students from Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh grabbed the first and second prize. The competition was organised by Association of Schools for the Indian School Certificate.
