It
is always a proud privilege to meet and interact with legendary iconic
achievers from different fields.
Kavipriya has been nurturing this dream right from her childhood. After completing her graduation in Computer
Science and post graduation in Visual Communication, she joined a reputed B
School to pursue her MBA.
Kavipriya
had the opportunity of meeting 50 legendary and iconic achievers and interacted
with them over a period of one year. "Ever since I began writing with
a pen, I started to record my observations and my feelings in my personal
diary. Somewhere in the midst of all this was born the germ of an idea to
chronicle the lives of living legends who have impacted the world with their
ways and views." Kavipriya recalls her pleasant memories.
Living Legends and
Learning Lessons
She
joined hands with Prof. Bala Balachandran, a globally renowned Management Guru
and the Founder of Great Lakes Institute, to author a book titled 'Living
Legends, Learning Lessons'. In this book she featured 10 Indian legends like
Ratan Tata, Infosys Narayanamurthy, Adi Godrej, Philip Kotler, Deepak Chopra,
Kiran Mazumdar and few others. This book
was released at Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Delhi. Ratan Tata and N R
Narayanamurthy launched the book at Chennai and Bengaluru respectively, in July
2015.
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Ratan Tata (second from left)
launching the book. Kavipriya (extreme
right looking on)
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"Ratan
Tata is truly regal. Although he is an
industry icon respected globally, I am impressed with his simplicity and
humbleness. I was surprised when he walked up to my elderly grandparents and greeted
them during the book launch", says Kavipriya.
Kavipriya
says that she has learnt a lot at this young age, by interacting with the icons
of various fields.
She
is coming out with the second part of the book featuring the remaining of the
50 icons she had interacted with. "These icons have
such intense aura, that it is difficult not to be influenced by them",
says Kavipriya.
While
addressing the media at Bengaluru during the book launch, N R Narayanamurthy,
Founder of Infosys openly acknowledged that Kavipriya was his inspiration,
because she left a lucrative job to take up entrepreneurship and to start her
branding company. He even went to the
extent of requesting Prof. Bala to write a book about her.
Multi-talented Personality
Kavipriya
is a multi-faceted and multi-talented personality. She has been a classical dancer right from
her childhood, combining the dance forms, Kathak, Ballet and
Bharatanatyam. During her student days,
she used to visit old age homes and orphanages to perform before the
inmates. She has done more than 2000
such performances. "I used to feel
happy when I could add smiles on the faces of the elderly people, and children
through my dance performances. That is
why I have named my branding company, 'Adding Smiles Pvt Ltd'." She is
engaged in CSR activities as well as personal branding, through her company.
During her early teens, she had won Miss Teenager India at the national level and Miss Fresh Face and also won regional beauty pageants . However, she focussed more on academics in her high school and won various leadership competitions.
Her focus towards education and serving the greater cause for education landed her to become the Goodwill Ambassador of Education Loan Task Force (ELTF), and initiative of Prime Point Foundation to spread the awareness about Education Loan to students across the nation.
She has the skill to sketch while dancing the
Kathak. The picture (left) was drawn by
her in 4 minutes during her dance performance at the talent round of Miss
Chennai Competition 2010.
Kavipriya
has appeared in nearly 75 print and television advertisements as model for
products. "I have appeared as bride
in more than 90% of these advertisements.
I accepted modelling assignments only where I was presented in a
dignified manner", says Kavipriya.
Some of the co-models who worked with her are now popular film artistes.
Kavipriya declined acting opportunities, as she wanted to be an
entrepreneur.
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Globally renowned Marketing Guru Philip Kotler being
interviewed by Kavipriya
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She
has several role models in her life. She
admires Jayalalitha and Indira Nooyi for their administrative capabilities. She
adores Priyadarshini Govind, the dancer who sustains her energy for a long time
while dancing, even at her 60-plus age.
She respects M S Subbulakshmi and Meenakshi Seshadri for their divine
beauty.
"I
want to touch millions of lives through my organisation, 'Adding Smiles', my dance
and my philanthropy", Kavipriya concludes.
By K. Srinivasan, Editor in Chief
and Sukruti Vadula, Editorial Team, PreSense
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