The Road to Success includes failing with Purpose, using Failure and mistakes as a continuous opportunity to reflect, review and Rise again.
The Story of Pallu Gupta also famous as Shubham Gupta is just like a Movie. A movie that has something inspiring. 27 years old Pallu Gupta living in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh is a Motivation for the present generation of youth.
In 2011 when he was 17 years old, he went to Cyber Cafe to check out his Intermediate CBSE board exam result and things shook him up as he got failed in Mathematics, of course a red line on your mark sheet can be felt like the end of your world. Something like that had happened with him and he felt Trepidation at his Father’s possible anger so instead of went back to home he went to the railway station directly from the cafe and spent the whole day there. According to him he felt extremely suicidal till the noon, but when he started observing the worst conditions of homeless people living there, it changed his whole perspective towards life.
Homeless children were hungry and struggling for food. They did not have even clothes and conditions were so unhygienic. Most of the parents were handicapped and were not able to perform physical activity. Even there were people having maggots in their heads and wounds. All these terrific things made him realise that the real problem of life was not what he was going through but was those people were going through.
This incident made him went back to his home and from the very next day he started helping them and working for their welfare at the individual level. Meanwhile, he read about Saheed Bhagat Singh and other Revolutionaries made him feel the need of a team. So, he Founded Bhagat Singh’s Ideology based NGO Angry Youth in 2012, in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. He is the Founder and the National President of Angry Youth. Now he has his teams & branches in Kanpur, Agra, Surat, Firozabaad, Gorakhpur, Mujaffarpur, Delhi, Mumbai Etc.
It has been almost 10 years of his involvement in social services and a lot has been achieved by him. During this period more than 400 social events like Food Drives, Ration Donation Drives, Clothes Donation, Awareness Programs, Plantation Events, Health Care Events etc. have been organised by him and his team.
They are running many projects and one of them is ” Parwah ” in which they donate Sanitary Pads to Women living in Slums during their Menstruation. One other Project is “Adopt the Hunger” in which they provide a Food kit to the people who are not physically or mentally capable on a monthly basis.
They are running free Classes under the project “Padhoge likhoge to banoge Nawab” for underprivileged children to develop skills and other special habits in them. During Corona Pandemic he along with his team fed more than 1200 Migrants workers and needy people on the daily basis. Many of the Media Houses and other Social Organisations have honoured him for his contribution towards society. He is an Advocate by Profession and wants to be an IPS officer to make sure all the victims get justice.
A lot of challenges have been faced by him during these last 10 years and one of them is to win the trust of the people to get involved in social services with Angry Youth as the Image of Social service based NGOs is not so good in the society. The other challenge was Financial arrangements for the NGO in starting phase. One more challenge was to balance the studies and leading the Angry Youth as President at the same time. But nothing was able to stop him from achieving his goals. He started alone at but now more than 1000 Youth directly and indirectly are contributing with him in the Social Services.
The Vision of Angry Youth is that capable people want to help the needy but they do not have a Transparent, Practical and Honest medium to approach them. The NGO is working as a Medium in the form of bridge between the capable and the needy so the capable one can reach to the needy one through us and can change his life.
He named the NGO as Angry Youth because his Ideology is that If one wants the positive change in the society then one has to have Anger against the negative things exist in society. Anger is always the first step of the change and the second may be Violence or Non-violence depends on the need of time like Mahatma Gandhi and Saheed Bhagat Singh. In Today’s world the need of time is only non violence and that is the path he adopted. This is how the NGO got it’s name ANGRY YOUTH and Slogan The Pacifism Leading by Anger
He learnt through his experience that failing, however undesirable, should not end your life. Staying self-motivated, upskilling yourself, helping people and making them realize how important and loved they are is important. He is truly an inspiration for people out there who think of giving up on life after one failure
