Jobin S Kottaram Moulding dreams and transforming lives

A motivational guru, academician par excellence, author and civil services coach, Jobin S Kottaram inspires countless individuals and has ignited a silent social revolution

- Renjith Leen

For the want of a nail the shoe was lost;

For the want of a shoe the horse was lost;

For the want of a horse the battle was lost;

It is an old rhyme we all are familiar with which says how a small misadventure can set off a chain reaction of sorts… For Jobin S Kottaram, it was the want of two marks that clipped the wings of his civil services dream. But the battle was not lost. It was just the beginning of a long innings of achievements for this life coach, motivational guru and author, who runs a chain of civil service training academies in Kerala.

An ardent champion of education, Jobin has given new dimensions to success and has earned a covetable position in the list of influencers in the state. His chain of civil service academies helps ordinary Malayalis dream big of cracking the UPSC exam and bring it to fruition, demolishing the perception that it is the monopoly of those from an elite background. Over the span of a decade, 108 products of his Absolute Academy have made it to the civil services. But that is just the tip of the iceberg.

What makes him a cut above the rest is the humongous effort he took to unlock the potential of Malayalam to propel the civil services aspirations of ordinary Keralites. He deserves unrestricted accolades for proving that Malayalis can use their mother tongue to crack the UPSC exams and for single-handedly penning all the texts needed for civil services coaching in the vernacular, a task which took him 10 long years.

How a scorched IAS dream shot Jobin to fame