Early Life and Education
Prasoon Joshi spent his earliest years in Almora, Uttarakhand, India. His father, R.K. Joshi, served as a PCS officer with the Civil Service of the state government and later became the additional director of the state's Education Service. These early years all across the North — and spending time in culture and art-soaked places like Almora, Nainital (where his extended family and relatives still live), Tehri, Chamoli Gopeshwar, and later Rampur, Meerut and Dehradun — gave Prasoon a remarkable feel for the real Indian pulse that he is now celebrated for in his lyrics and advertising. His mother, Sushma Joshi, a lecturer in political science, performed for the All India Radio for over three decades. His parents are qualified classical vocalists and daily home life for the young Prasoon was marked with academic discipline, a rich vein of the artistic life and a strong sense of music and culture.
He started writing early in life and published his first book at age 17, Main Aur Woh, a ‘conversation with himself’, inspired by Frederich Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra. Two more books followed, establishing him as an author.
His latest book, Sunshine Lanes ,a collection of his songs, was launched at the Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2013
Prasoon did his B. Sc. and post graduation in Physics, then elected to pursue an MBA from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India. During his MBA education he decided to fuse his love for culture and art and his faculty for the commercial dynamic and make his career in advertising.
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