lifes a game its said and hari raman decided that he would play it his way even when he was dealt a bad hand born to agricultural workers in purushanur a hamlet in tamil nadus villupuram district he defied all odds to become a doctor using his passion for gaming to pave the path to his dream profession today the 25yearold doctor and gaming enthusiast dishes out medical advice and pro tips for gamers with equal ease on his youtube channel which has 204 lakh subscribersi have always dreamed of becoming a doctor but i come from a poor family my parents s lakshminarayanan and l vijaya are farm hands he says adding that his mother was always supportive of his dreams she wanted to send me to a private school but when she approached my uncle to get a loan he refused and asked her to put me in a government school and not waste moneyhowever vijaya didnt give up managed to get a loan and put hari in akt academy matriculation higher secondary school kallakurichi since i had to travel three hours by bus i had to stay in a hostel says dr hari who scored 94 in class 12 i worked hard for the mbbs entrance examination but couldnt secure a seat so in 2015 i tried again and got a seat in gmers medical college in gujaratthough his classmates and teachers were helpful hari still felt lonely and missed speaking tamil other students were able to go out and have fun but i couldnt afford anything i had to earn to support myself but it was difficult to do a parttime job while studying says dr hari who then thought of starting a gaming channel on youtube so in his second year he started pvs gaming its named after my village my mom and grandfather s selvaraj who helped pay my fees they are the ones who helped me grow says hari who began uploading one video every daysince i knew the game well i told viewers how to play it what not to do etc in tamil he says his easygoing manner simple language and ability to connect with viewers saw his subscriber base grow six months after i started it i earned 8000 says dr haribut life was still tough hari was told he couldnt appear for his final year exams as he hadnt paid the fees they gave me one day to pay it and said i would have to write the exams six months later if i couldnt do it i cried as i wanted to complete my course on time he saysthats when his friends came to his rescue pooling in money to pay his fees in a couple of weeks i was able to repay them but i will be forever grateful for their help he saysdr hari who graduated this year now works as a medical officer at the villupuram government hospital but even while pulling long hours at