Krishna Vikas, a 23 year old professional fitness consultant is a resident of Hyderabad and is a very easy going, positive minded and straight forward person. He believes in sharing joy and happiness in the lives of underprivileged people and spreads the message of humanity to the world. He finds satisfaction in their happiness. While most of us spend money on things which we don’t really need, Krishna Vikas brings in a smile on the face of people by buying them those things which they long for.
In talks with Krishna Vikas:
1) What made you begin the initiative “Stop Taking Start Giving” initiative?
There is a small story behind “Stop taking Start giving”. Back in December 2014, I was on the bed down with an injury( a slipped disc). I was thinking how privileged I was to have such a caring family who took good care of me while on the contrary, I compared my position with those who were under privileged. I really wanted to do something, to bring about a change. I used to curse the government on how the things were running in the society. I knew my voice would go unheard and it would do nothing but go as a waste. I decided to bring about small changes around me that would inspire a few and motivate them to take steps towards humanity. That’s all what I wanted.
2) What is the motive behind this initiative?
The main motive of the channel is “the joy of giving is found in simplest of the things”, which basically helps me make videos centred upon making people smile, social experiments and feeding the homeless.
3) Share with us any striking incident you came across.
One of the striking incident which I came across is when I made a video on Racism. For this I took the help of two African students. Basically we enacted a scene depicting how black people undergo racial discrimination. I hurled racist slang deliberately against those two students and waited to see if anyone would come forward to help them. Surprisingly and as expected there was none to lend their hand for help.
4) Highlight on various activities undertaken in your initiative.
We have so far conducted 20 activities like giving gifts to the underprivileged during festivals, giving stationary items to children from government schools. One such instance that I remember is when I decided to take two young girls, whose mothers worked as maids, to have a day of fun. I took these two girls out for shopping and treated them with a nice meal at a restaurant.
5) Tell us about the themed “February month”, which you reserve for various activities
February is not only restricted to Valentine’s day, we gave it a new dimension by spreading love to the underprivileged. One such activity which I remember was when a watchman asked me why was I doing so much for him, caring for him, for which I replied to him that first he was a human and then a watchman. I wanted to break this kind of stereotype and make the less privileged believe that they are equally important in the society.
6) What is your perception of “The joy of giving” ?
The world we live in today is filled up with materialistic values. In our country there are lot of people who strive for even the basic necessities, which when given to them, makes a big difference and their world gets completed. Sometimes happiness is making another person happy. This small initiative of mine has now impacted over 500 people just in my neighbourhood. The initiative is not only restricted to giving but also interacting with the under privileged people.
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