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Aditya Birla and I

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Poorna G
Poorna G

Why is Aditya Birla big in my life?

Since my childhood, Aditya Birla has touched my life even without me knowing it. Starting from my favorite store Pantaloons which has various brands namely forever 21, Louis Philippe, Liva Fluid Fashion, Allen Solly, Van Heusen everything makes it a one-stop for my shopping. All brands at a single place. Not only my fashion but also the basis of my comfortable living my home it is constructed using Ultra Tech cement. Every major product I think of is from ABG starting from my fashion choice to my network which is Vodafone. All these days I was not much aware of this but when I started checking everything that I used on daily basis was from ABG and I'm very thankful for them to make my life very simple to provide me which all the products which I require in my life on a day to day basis

I am from Tamil Nadu looking on the CSR activity done by ABG during Tsunami makes it closer to my heart. The tsunami struck Tamil Nadu hard people had no clue about such a disaster in the year of 2004. Understanding the situation was even very difficult but ABG helping out during such a crucial period made me take one more step towards it.

How I overcame challenges to achieve my ambitions in life so far?

As a kid, I wanted to be an Engineer with an MBA and my parents wanted me to be a doctor as I was good at studies. When I scored enough marks to get into Medical college there was a huge battle. Every parent would want their child to be a doctor over an engineer that too when the seat is available as I cleared my cut-off easily. Every day my relatives would convince and say to them to convince me that doctor would be a good choice when in the marriage market. I made a clear conversation to my parents that Engineering with an MBA is what I wanted. A calm, peaceful and thoughtful speech is a way I chose to get to my ambition. This helped me my parents agreed to let me do Engineering. After my engineering, I wanted to work for two years which I thought will give me more insight when I start to pursue my MBA. But again my parents were worried about my age that it would cross the regular marital age of a conservative family again I took a stand spoke to them and they agreed. Now I am pursuing the dream of my life which is MBA.

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Aditya Birla and I