Celebrating Your Superstar Parents™
Vaani and AVIS offer to chronicle your family’s history, lived experiences and learnings.
Make this program a special offering from you to your parents:
What is this program about?
This is a beautiful new offering from the happynesswalas™, Vaani and AVIS.
Vaani and AVIS are expert writers and biographers, speakers and conversationalists. They are amazing storytellers. They will curate, present and document your family’s story – masterfully, so that it lives on and continues to inspire future generations.
Why is this program important – and relevant?
Every human being goes through Life in their own unique way – with their share of joy and sorrow, highs and lows, opportunities and upheavals, and gains and losses. These powerful human stories often go undocumented – and remain untold.
So it is with the stories of parents in most families.
Also, without doubt, for most children, their parents are superstars. But when these children grow up and become adults, they rarely have time for their superstar parents. Because as adults now, the children are caught up in their own earning-a-living cycles. They end up being busy for years on end: With growing their careers and their families, with seizing opportunities that come their way, and with dealing with their own challenges and upheavals. Even as all this is happening, somewhere along the way, the superstar parents of these children become old and, eventually, they walk into the sunset.
Resultantly, the stories of these superstar parents too remain untold.
This program offers an opportunity to do things differently in your family!
Consider this: Your parents too have had an interesting Life. Their lived experiences, their leadership of the family and of challenging situations, their values and their learnings – all these form your family’s story and make up its history. As their child, you know some of this story – but perhaps not all of it.
There’s so much more to know about how your family has grown and evolved – and to learn from your parents.
Curating and chronicling your family’s story, through celebrating your parents’ amazing journey, is the most precious gift that you can give your parents and your children. More importantly, if it is not documented now, your parents’ story, and the learnings it has to offer, may well be lost over a period of time.
This is where the Celebrating Your Superstar Parents™ program fits in.
Vaani and AVIS love exploring human stories. They distill lessons on Life and Happiness from lived experiences. And they share these stories through their evocative writings and their world-class conversations.
Through the Celebrating Your Superstar Parents™ program, the happynesswalas™ will – creatively, qualitatively and aesthetically – curate your family’s story, and help you document, record and preserve it.
What does this program offer?
This program is designed to celebrate the story of one or both of your superstar parents in three unique ways:
1. An unputdownable biography: Vaani and AVIS are specialist biographers. (See: Biographies by the happynesswalas™.) They will write an evocative, powerful biography of your parents in English. This work will document the amazing journey of your parents and record your family’s history.
2. A memorable conversation: Vaani and AVIS are also great conversationalists. They curate and present world-class conversations. (See: Conversations by the happynesswalas™.) On the day your parents’ biography is being launched, Vaani and AVIS will anchor a 90-minute live conversation with them. This can be done at an event that you may want to host for your extended family and friends. This conversation will be inspiring, and will be an authentic celebration of who your parents are and what they have achieved.
3. An inspiring video: This conversation will be recorded and hosted on YouTube. That way, your superstar parents’ amazing conversation with Vaani and AVIS stays accessible for anyone – anytime!
In essence, this program delivers a biography (in English), a live conversation and its video recording.
Vaani and AVIS are powerful storytellers
They write. They deliver inspiring talks. They host world-class conversations. They invest their every waking hour in distilling lessons on Life and Happiness from human stories - and in sharing them with audiences that care to pause and reflect. Their Life’s purpose is Inspiring ‘Happyness’™!
Vaani and AVIS were both in the media industry early on in their careers.
AVIS has worked with The Indian Express, India Today, Businessworld and Business Today. At The Indian Express, AVIS wrote a very impactful and popular column called Suburban Orbit. This column carried in-depth, investigative stories on the serious lapses in civic administration in the suburbs of Chennai (then Madras). In 1989, AVIS won the Vigil Award and the Junior Chamber International’s National Outstanding Young Person Award for this column. At India Today, AVIS co-wrote the cover story on Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination in May 1991. He and India Today’s photographer Shyam Tekwani were the only two journalists who traveled on the special plane that carried Rajiv Gandhi’s body from Chennai to New Delhi on the morning of Wednesday, May 22, 1991. AVIS’ coverage of the events that led to the assassination and of the assassination itself were sharp and exclusive. Also, when he was based in Kerala with India Today, AVIS wrote powerful human-interest features. One was on the broken lives of the people working in the state’s thriving bamboo industry. And the other was on the women of Aruvacode, a village near Nilambur in North Kerala. These women were being driven to join the sex trade to earn a living. This story led to constructive action from Kerala’s women and social welfare department. A development program was initiated that led to the whole village being transformed. The women were taught pottery. AVIS’ story and the government intervention that followed have had a profound, long-lasting impact: Aruvacode today produces some of the finest pottery and terracotta works in India. While at Business Today, AVIS contributed significantly to the magazine’s strategy, leadership and startup sections. He wrote in-depth stories profiling renowned founders and CEOs of Indian business houses.
Vaani has written evocative, human-interest features for The Times of India, Verve magazine and The Economic Times’ supplement, Madras Plus. Although she has profiled both celebrities and unsung people, she has always focused on talking about what made each of them human. She has had the unique opportunity to interview both Vani Ganapathy and Kamal Hassan. The celebrity couple had separated by then. Meeting them individually, Vaani dealt with their choices and journeys with sensitivity and dignity. Such empathy was – and still is – rare in the media world.
Vaani and AVIS are writers committed to telling only genuine, authentic stories that need to be told. And they tell them very, very well.
Two of AVIS’ books – Fall Like A Rose Petal and Uthirum Roja Ithazh Pola – are presently available on Amazon. ‘fabulous. brilliant. loveable.’ is Vaani and AVIS’ latest book. Read more about it here.
- To thank them, for who they are, and for all that they have taught you and done for you!
- To whip up a never-before, never-again family celebration, or, simply, to bring in a milestone in your parents’ lives!
What is this program about?
This is a beautiful new offering from the happynesswalas™, Vaani and AVIS.
Vaani and AVIS are expert writers and biographers, speakers and conversationalists. They are amazing storytellers. They will curate, present and document your family’s story – masterfully, so that it lives on and continues to inspire future generations.
Why is this program important – and relevant?
Every human being goes through Life in their own unique way – with their share of joy and sorrow, highs and lows, opportunities and upheavals, and gains and losses. These powerful human stories often go undocumented – and remain untold.
So it is with the stories of parents in most families.
Also, without doubt, for most children, their parents are superstars. But when these children grow up and become adults, they rarely have time for their superstar parents. Because as adults now, the children are caught up in their own earning-a-living cycles. They end up being busy for years on end: With growing their careers and their families, with seizing opportunities that come their way, and with dealing with their own challenges and upheavals. Even as all this is happening, somewhere along the way, the superstar parents of these children become old and, eventually, they walk into the sunset.
Resultantly, the stories of these superstar parents too remain untold.
This program offers an opportunity to do things differently in your family!
Consider this: Your parents too have had an interesting Life. Their lived experiences, their leadership of the family and of challenging situations, their values and their learnings – all these form your family’s story and make up its history. As their child, you know some of this story – but perhaps not all of it.
There’s so much more to know about how your family has grown and evolved – and to learn from your parents.
Curating and chronicling your family’s story, through celebrating your parents’ amazing journey, is the most precious gift that you can give your parents and your children. More importantly, if it is not documented now, your parents’ story, and the learnings it has to offer, may well be lost over a period of time.
This is where the Celebrating Your Superstar Parents™ program fits in.
Vaani and AVIS love exploring human stories. They distill lessons on Life and Happiness from lived experiences. And they share these stories through their evocative writings and their world-class conversations.
Through the Celebrating Your Superstar Parents™ program, the happynesswalas™ will – creatively, qualitatively and aesthetically – curate your family’s story, and help you document, record and preserve it.
What does this program offer?
This program is designed to celebrate the story of one or both of your superstar parents in three unique ways:
1. An unputdownable biography: Vaani and AVIS are specialist biographers. (See: Biographies by the happynesswalas™.) They will write an evocative, powerful biography of your parents in English. This work will document the amazing journey of your parents and record your family’s history.
2. A memorable conversation: Vaani and AVIS are also great conversationalists. They curate and present world-class conversations. (See: Conversations by the happynesswalas™.) On the day your parents’ biography is being launched, Vaani and AVIS will anchor a 90-minute live conversation with them. This can be done at an event that you may want to host for your extended family and friends. This conversation will be inspiring, and will be an authentic celebration of who your parents are and what they have achieved.
3. An inspiring video: This conversation will be recorded and hosted on YouTube. That way, your superstar parents’ amazing conversation with Vaani and AVIS stays accessible for anyone – anytime!
In essence, this program delivers a biography (in English), a live conversation and its video recording.
Vaani and AVIS are powerful storytellers
They write. They deliver inspiring talks. They host world-class conversations. They invest their every waking hour in distilling lessons on Life and Happiness from human stories - and in sharing them with audiences that care to pause and reflect. Their Life’s purpose is Inspiring ‘Happyness’™!
Vaani and AVIS were both in the media industry early on in their careers.
AVIS has worked with The Indian Express, India Today, Businessworld and Business Today. At The Indian Express, AVIS wrote a very impactful and popular column called Suburban Orbit. This column carried in-depth, investigative stories on the serious lapses in civic administration in the suburbs of Chennai (then Madras). In 1989, AVIS won the Vigil Award and the Junior Chamber International’s National Outstanding Young Person Award for this column. At India Today, AVIS co-wrote the cover story on Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination in May 1991. He and India Today’s photographer Shyam Tekwani were the only two journalists who traveled on the special plane that carried Rajiv Gandhi’s body from Chennai to New Delhi on the morning of Wednesday, May 22, 1991. AVIS’ coverage of the events that led to the assassination and of the assassination itself were sharp and exclusive. Also, when he was based in Kerala with India Today, AVIS wrote powerful human-interest features. One was on the broken lives of the people working in the state’s thriving bamboo industry. And the other was on the women of Aruvacode, a village near Nilambur in North Kerala. These women were being driven to join the sex trade to earn a living. This story led to constructive action from Kerala’s women and social welfare department. A development program was initiated that led to the whole village being transformed. The women were taught pottery. AVIS’ story and the government intervention that followed have had a profound, long-lasting impact: Aruvacode today produces some of the finest pottery and terracotta works in India. While at Business Today, AVIS contributed significantly to the magazine’s strategy, leadership and startup sections. He wrote in-depth stories profiling renowned founders and CEOs of Indian business houses.
Vaani has written evocative, human-interest features for The Times of India, Verve magazine and The Economic Times’ supplement, Madras Plus. Although she has profiled both celebrities and unsung people, she has always focused on talking about what made each of them human. She has had the unique opportunity to interview both Vani Ganapathy and Kamal Hassan. The celebrity couple had separated by then. Meeting them individually, Vaani dealt with their choices and journeys with sensitivity and dignity. Such empathy was – and still is – rare in the media world.
Vaani and AVIS are writers committed to telling only genuine, authentic stories that need to be told. And they tell them very, very well.
Two of AVIS’ books – Fall Like A Rose Petal and Uthirum Roja Ithazh Pola – are presently available on Amazon. ‘fabulous. brilliant. loveable.’ is Vaani and AVIS’ latest book. Read more about it here.
