I am from India and grew up in a town called Warangal in South India. I grew up there with my parents and with my only brother Ravi. From third grade onward, I studied in a Catholic Boarding school run by P. I. M. E. missionary fathers from Italy. I was inspired by the life of Fr. Colombo, an Italian missionary priest who was in charge of our boarding school then. Inspired by his life, I decided to become a priest like him when I was in 5th grade. Then I joined the Apostolic seminary as a pre-seminary student in 6th grade, and I never looked back from then. After 10th grade, I decided to continue my seminary studies and after 12 years of seminary as well as academic studies, I was ordained as a priest in the year 2000 when I was 27 years old. It has been 24 years and I never regretted becoming a priest.