By Michael Ashcraft —
One day, BigNik, born with a rare form of dwarfism, decided to make a video in his wheelchair. He cussed to music. People thought it was funny, and it went viral. Within two months, he became an Internet superstar on Vine, rising to 2.6M followers.
His little brother, at age 5, transitioned to “Devina.” His Hindu parents were okay with this, and the whole package was too much for the progressive media to resist: the family was featured in a reality show by People Magazine online website.
But in August of 2020, Nik Keswani flushed all his sponsorships, his rap music, his drugs. After researching extensively during Covid, Big Nik became convinced, threw his Hindu upbringing to the wind and bowed his knee to Jesus Christ.
“I don’t smoke weed anymore because Jesus set me free,” Big Nik says on a Mario Esparza video on YouTube. “We don’t deserve God’s love.” He closed down his lucrative channels and opened a new one to talk exclusively about Christ.
Nik Keswani was born in 1998 to a modern family of Indian immigrants. His dad was an ER physician. His older sister aimed for a career in modeling. His little brother displayed feminine characteristics, and the “modern” family of the 2000s did what some progressives do: they transitioned him before puberty.
Nik’s dwarfism required over a dozen of life-saving surgeries. The congenital condition also left him blind in one eye. His video from his wheelchair singing cuss words went viral on the Vine, the now-defunct platform of 6-second videos. He was 14. He also rose on Instagram and YouTube.
His forte was comedy. In one video, he dons a wig making fun of girls. He filmed videos about bullying, something he had been subjected to because of his height. People said that he had a big heart and big personality (in contrast to his short stature), and the moniker BigNik was born.
As he grew, he ventured into rapping and acting. Deals were offered. He began making more money than his mom, an optometrist.
As he took Hollywood by storm, a tempest of sin took him. He began partying, drinking and smoking marijuana. He says he nearly died a couple times because of mixing drugs like Xanaz with other intoxicants.
“I used to listen to these demonic rappers who literally rapped about Satan called Suicide Boys,” he says on his podcast with Mallory Garza. “It actually opened up an antichrist Spirit to dwell within me. Once I started listening to their music, I started to really hate Jesus for no reason. I started becoming a huge mocker of the things of God. I couldn’t go a day without smoking marijuana, or I’d be fiending.”
But then Covid hit. Along with everyone, Nik was locked up. He took advantage of the excess of free time to read. He delved into serious subjects, especially the question of God. God reminded him of a dream that he had at age 10 – a dream he had forgotten in his wayward ways of fame and sin.
Nik dreamed he was on a flight. Outside the window, there was gloriously beautiful scenes with unreal vibrant colors. He looked down the hallway of the private jet to the cockpit. The pilot was shining bright in a white robe with eyes that drew Nik’s undivided attention.
“I never heard about Jesus Christ. I knew nothing about Jesus. Somehow, I thought this man is God, but I didn’t know he was Jesus,” Nik says. “My eyes were like magnets to his eyes.”
Nik asked him about the purpose of life. Jesus smiled. Then his mom woke him up.
He blabbered excitedly to his always supportive mom about his dream. As the years passed, however, he forgot the dream – until he became convinced from his reading that Christianity was true, Hinduism was false, and Hollywood was demonic.
He is now 26, attends church in Dallas and street-preaches.
The media and worldly public, which fawned over him when he cussed and rapped, turned hostile. He’s now called misogynist, bigoted, incel and “off the deep end.”
At least indirectly, he addresses the situation of his transgender sibling. On his interview with Mallory Garza, he says, “Obama as president made a lot of sin legal and mainstream that opened portals to a bigger wave of degeneracy. We opened the Pandora’s Box.”
(In 2012, President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to publicly endorse same-sex marriage. In 2015, the US Supreme Court ultimately made same-sex marriage legal nationwide.)
Today, Nik does Christian rap.
“Jesus woke me up,” he says on Rapzilla. “I feel like I was meant to be on this journey.”
To learn more about a personal relationship with Jesus, click here.
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About these writer: Michael Ashcraft reported from Los Angeles where he pastors a church in the San Fernando Valley.
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