Writing Against The Odds, a panel discussion between Amin Sheikh, a street child-turned-entrepreneur, and Thalassemia and cancer survivor Chandan Das, will be held as part of the Hyderabad Literary Festival, on January 27.
Amin will about the struggles he had faced before and after he ran away from home at the age of five.
Both Amin and Chandan have one thing in common - passion for penning down their thoughts. Amin had wrtten his autobiography Life is Life, I Am Because Of You, whereas Chandan had penned his emotions through verse.
Amin sold 13,000 copies of his books in four-and-a-half years and has opened a library cafe "Bombay to Barcelona", which was his long-time dream.