Paytm boss Vijay Shekhar Sharma's poem from Class X is a hit, Twitter finds it inspiring

Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma was blessed by the muses when he was a young student. Don't believe it? See this poem he wrote as a student of 10th standard, which many Twitter users now find 'inspiring'.

The poem “Vishwas Karo Karm Mein" ( Believe in Your Work) in Hindi was published in his school magazine in 1991, and Sharma shared it recently on Twitter.

“Just found my poem, from our school magazine published in 1991. I was in class 10 then,” the 44-year-old tech billionaire wrote with a hint of pride in what he could put together as a school student.


The poem was about keeping penury at bay through hard work, and talked about how you could make a lotus flower in mud or make the earth touch the sky through your efforts.

This is what Sharma tweeted

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Chairman, Managing Director and CEO of One97 Communications and its consumer brand Paytm, which he founded in 2010. Many on Twitter loved it, pointing out that he has lived his life by what he wrote as a student.

Others pointed out the thoughts were were quite deep for a 15 year old, and they were were very inspiring for those who read them together with his journey.