The Founding roots of Aditya Birla Group can be outlined in the late 1850s when Shiv Seth Narayan Birla Started trading in cotton and after his demise, his son Mr. Ghanshyam Das Birla took over the Birla group setting up the groundbreaking industries ranging from fabric to cement and Aluminium to chemicals. One would think of him of being only the Industrialist but he was the driving force of India’s Freedom Movements reinforcing Mahatma Gandhiji in his Round table Conference in London.
Now it was the time for his grandson, Mr. Aditya Vikram Birla, to make the grandeur move and he aptly proved his worthiness taking the group to limitless bounties. His revolutionary entrepreneurship acumen shaped the globalization that we witness today that business could be global even while based in our country-India. He redefined the way we visualize management- “My vocation is to strive continuously, to reach excellence in all spheres of management, by weaving the threads of enterprise, knowledge, experience, ideas, and tasks into a fabric that can be called 'management”. Under the able leadership Mr. Aditya Birla, the Birla Group rose to become the world's largest producer of viscose fiber, the largest refiner of palm oil, the third-largest producer of insulators and the sixth-largest producer of carbon black.
Surprisingly in my career, I encountered Aditya Birla Group only after I was preparing for BITSAT which was exclusively meant for officially getting you weaved into the fabrics of The Birla Group- BITS Pilani. This was the time when I researched BITS Pilani and got to know that this was the same village where Shiv Seth Narayan Birla started his cotton business. It was the ecstatic feel to realize that such an eminent institute at Pilani was put forth by the industrialists that afterward was going to become so renowned that aspirants would dream of setting afoot into this. BITS Pilani is the institute where technology meets with industry, management meets with perfection, ideas meet execution and The Birlas meet with Future Birlas.
Unfortunately, I did not make it to BITS Pilani but the time I remember well when an opportunity knocked down my lane when I was in Rajasthan for a week. It was the week when I was fully prepared to witness the excellence of the Institute. It was the land of Birlas where even the temples had the carvings of scientists onto them which in itself spoke millions.
This is how, in spite of the fail in an exam, I changed my perspective of viewing everything and I completely owe that to the Birlas. One failure can’t ever determine what you are capable of doing and finally, here I am again owing to the Birlas to again reiterate my thoughts to my good days.
