“Khushi Dhillon’s FORBES in the Making is a sincere attempt by a first-time author to break down the complexity of the business world from the perspective of a 15-year old. I congratulate her for her effort and wish her the best for her future writing endeavors.”

[Dr. Shashi Tharoor]


Khushi Dhillon is a student of life, who invariably followed her dad Vijay Dhillon's footsteps who has questioned and changed the way thousands of people around the world think about money, parenting, and entrepreneurship in general. With his ideas that often rebut established understandings, Khushi has achieved a sense of strong opinions, power, and righteousness.


Kavishala is going behind the scenes to uncover the inspirations and secrets of Khushi Dhillon:


Kavishala: Tell us all about your childhood and where you grew up. How was life different, then? What were your hobbies, early influences, mentors?

Khushi: Back in my early years I lived in Kuwait. My parents were employees and so we maintained a minimal lifestyle. My dad has really struggled his way to success which required immense work and effort to help provide for our family with a luxurious comfortable life that we live today. However, all these changes only took place in 2008 when my father had made enough money to start his business venture which took us by surprise regarding how very well it did and is still u and going successfully till today.


Kavishala: You suited up as a Writer rather early, with your writing. What inspired you to take this up? And what was your aim?

Khushi: The decision of writing a book fell in place in the year 2018, while I was reading the book ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad” on a train in Canada. When I came across complex terminologies such as “Cash Flow Quadrant, Financial scorecard, Assets and liabilities I looked up to my father for clarity, While other teenagers don’t have the same privilege which builds a barrier to their learning. Hence me and my father thought of exploring the idea of writing a book so I could fill the gap for many people out there who seek interest in entrepreneurship by simply providing a summary to all the business books I’ve read up until today in the form or a short storybook. 


Kavishala: What impact has your writing had on the community and society?

Khushi: By just using the format of providing summary points in the end of each chapter, along with a quote has a great impact as our generation needs instant answers hence my book has numerous real-life short stories that put forth business learning. The idea of building my book on such a format 


Kavishala: When and why did you pick up the quill? How much time did you devote to it, and did you keep your studies alongside? How did you juggle both?

Khushi: we are all writers, and I have always penned down my emotions in a book it gives u time to reiterate and reflect. I feel that every individual should practice writing as we all have a story to tell. Writing is a way of self-reflection so writing a book didn’t take me more than 3 months. I gave up on my outing for these months as I had a target to achieve which was to finish a book. At the end, it all paid of when I got the first 5 copies of my book and I felt accomplished and proud. The method to avoid outings helped me maintain a balance between studies and writing a book. 

 

Kavishala: Who is Your favorite writer/ inspiration and why?

Khushi: My father is my living inspiration as he has grown from a $200 monthly cheque to having his own company. He has forced me to read books until I got fond of them and he is the one who pushed me to explore new arenas until I found my calling. 


Kavishala: Mention the success you have experienced.

Khushi: My work was recognised by Dr.Shashi Tharoor a former secretary-general for the UN and currently an Indian politician serving as an MP, Dr.Ranbir Singh the vice-chancellor of NLU, Dr.Ameeta Singh queen of Amethi, and Mr.A.R Kohli former governor of the Indian state of Mizoram. This really boosted my confidence that my work indeed can help many people out there in some way or another. This also gave me a vision of how my book is not just limited to the business world and can be looked at from a political or law perspective


Kavishala: Do you have any particular audience in mind when you write, an ideal reader?

Khushi: Forbes in the making is for Teenagers and young adults who desire a business head start in being and are willing to inherit the lessons in their conduct. 

In the 21st century, education is a vital fragment to predicting success, except the current educational systems lack the efficiency to provide the stepping stones to the real world of entrepreneurship. This book intends to fill the gaps to help you with realistic approaches and guidelines that one should inherit at a young age. Forbes in the making would help you explore new methods that the author and her father who is a first-generation successful entrepreneur helped her inculcate parting from the academics. Forbes in the making will surprise you with approaches you never knew existed, enabling you to utilize them for the rest of your life. 

 

Kavishala: What are the greatest lessons you have learned from your journey? Expecting HATKE answers from you, with crazy anecdotes! :)

Khushi: As clique, this may sound, through all my teenage years stress and I hate to say it but peer pressure as well I have learned that living up to others expectations is never going to make you happy rather the key to all your happiness in the world as my mom would say is “the key to happiness is Sanu ki”, sounds pretty funny but it honestly makes SO much sense especially in the age group I am currently at.


Kavishala: What are your future plans?

Khushi: Maybe look into writing another book building on similar yet new ideas learnt. I hope to build my portfolio in Management and soon follow the footsteps of my father Mr.Vijay Prithvi Dhillon. 


Kavishala: Your message for fellow Writers.

Khushi: Just keep your eyes open at all times, open to new ideas and how you can implement them for your success. A true business person needs to be prepared at all times to pick on the right opportunity. One has to make the right decisions at the right time which only you and your instinct will guide you to do. Lastly, I would like to say an entrepreneur needs A, B, C, D. A being Ability, B for Belief, C for commitment, and D for devotion if one is missing you cant succeed


Kavishala: Anything you want to share about Kavishala.

Khushi: Kavishala is a wonderful platform that identifies booming or established artists and gives them a voice to a larger platform. I would really thank Mr. Ankur for giving me the platform to reach out to such a large audience today.