A small village in Maharashtra (The Indian state whose capital is Bombay), was the home to a boy named Balaji. Balaji's parents were poor but inspite of it they had decided to educate Balaji and sent him to school. Balaji worked sincerely and worked hard at his studies. His concentration was a model for others. He however could not make much progress as he was very forgetful and could never remember things he was supposed to. The harder he tried to remember the more he forgot.
In an attempt Balaji wrote down everything so that he could remember it but all his efforts were futile. In the process he developed a beautiful handwriting.
As this did not require any memory he decided to improve it as much as he could. Gradually his hard work made his handwriting more and more beautiful.
His teachers praised him saying, "Your handwriting has become so tidy and beautiful, that I have not seen any other handwriting whish is even half as good as yours."

The encouragement led Balaji to strive more for excellence his handwriting now became neat, bold and artistic. He, aware of his lack of skills in studies, consoled himself with the fact that at least in one field he was better than anyone else.
This was when Shivaji was ruling Maharashtra. Then documents were written by hand and on palm leaves and some handmade paper. People with good handwriting were commissioned by him to write manuscripts. They were known as court writers and were the best in the land.
Shivaji had a writer in his court, but his interest in writing old Hindu manuscripts required the services of one more court writer. He ordered his Chief Minister to find one. The Chief Minister went all over the kingdom and collected the handwriting of 7 of the best writers and brought them back for Shivaji's scrutiny. Shivaji looked at all of them and finding Balaji to be the best appointed as his personal writer. Balaji and his parent's poverty ended.