this could be termed as a story of pursuing ones dreams and making it successful with strong willpower and determination vijay warghare who is in his early 30s pursued his microart dream much against the wishes of his family and has now emerged a successful businessmanwarghare persisted with his interest of writing names on grains of rice and then selling it attached to a keychain he abandoned studies much to the chagrin of his parents and learnt the art at pune where his father shivdas was posted in a military depotnow warghare who runs a canteen at the nagpur university campus has honed his skill so well that he can write as many as 20 names on a basmati grain in the span of a few minutes the shy but tough looking warghare uses poster colour for writing names in a fashionable way it doesnt take even a minute to write a name on a grain and prepare a keychain all this without using a magnifying glasseven though i studied upto std xi i was never inclined towards education said warghare my parents were worried and even verbal clashes broke out between us they always wanted me to have a good job like my other siblings though it was their love my dreams forced me to join my guru vishal singh who taught me microart and tattooing work warghare says smilinglywarghare used to set up his stall at popular tourist places and make keychains from basmati grain with customers names written on it his hobby took him to tour tourist destinations in goa mahabaleshwar and pune i always intended to start my own business that will allow me to pursue my hobby for three years i toiled hard setting stalls in nearby cities and saving every rupee that i earned keychain grains were more popular than tattoo he says in the meanwhile his father retired and the family returned to nagpur warghares parents wanted him to come back and settle in the city by this time warghare had earned rs 2 lakhs from his profession i decided to come back and pursue my hobby in nagpur for rs 15lakh i got the tender to run the university canteen i also set up a stall in the area i didnt take even a single penny from anyone ironically people in our region dont respect this art and that makes me sad i did not get much response as i managed to sell barely a couple of keychains in pune my products were a rage and college students used to buy from me in dozens to present to their loved ones he saysnow warghare who looks after his parents wants to continue his hobby and aims to popularise microart in the area i would like to share my knowledge with anyone whos interested i will advise them to go by inner voice to emerge successful he says