Sunil Robert Vuppula shares his personal testimony about the twists and turns that he had to endure growing up in Hyderabad, India. Vuppula tells the audience that his life was pretty normal growing up until his father lost his job, when he was about 11 years old. He goes on further to share his accounts of what it was like to be poor in India, painting a picture that would shock almost anyone. Vuppula’s description of poverty in India does not even compare to what poverty is like in the United States. Out of the poverty and despair, Vuppula started to compete in speech contests because he like it, he was good at it, and he viewed communication as a way out of poverty. The article details how he started his career in communications, how