To say that the life of Prakash Varma was full of ups and downs is putting it lightly.
Prakash is a son of a lowly barber who was working under a local landlord, but when His Majesty purged all the corrupt landlords and nobility classes in the then Vijayanagara Empire in the 50's, his father and himself were freed from the constant servitude without any pay, which they were suffering since they were born.
Sadly, though, the Brahma's writing on his forehead didn't seem to be too good, because only a year after their landlords had died, his father caught a rare disease and died soon after, leaving him, a 12-year-old boy, alone to fend for himself.
Thankfully, when the land was distributed to the people working under the landlords, his father had received over 20 acres of fertile land, and after his father's death, he inherited it. Sadly, he didn't know what to do with the land since he was not from a farming family, and he didn't know how to farm.
