Why Aditya Birla Group is big in your life?
The year is 2004, it is 630 A.M, I and my elder brother are getting ready to go to school. Our mother, a teacher in the same school is preparing breakfast and the lunch box for us. The enthralling fragrance of "Maa ke haath ka Paneer and garam roti" is still resonating in my memories. It is now 11:45 A.M, I am sitting with my friends during the lunch break. I open up the lunch box and the fragrance of Paneer and Roti is still fresh, contained in Freshwrapp Aluminum foil by Hindalco. All-day, every day, Freshwrapp's aluminum foil maintained the freshness of the food prepared by my mother, and now sitting in Ghaziabad 1000s of kilometers away from home, I am still longing for that love.
Freshwrapp by Hindalco, Ultratech Cement, Birla Carbon, Pantaloons & Fashion Retail, More Hypermarkets, are some of the brands of the Indian conglomerate which have been a part of my journey in India. These brands resonate the trust built and maintained by the Birla Group of companies and, to not use the term lightly, can be trusted blindly.
Aditya Birla Group's 162-year-old legacy is still resonating with people from the different walks of life in 34 different countries where it is present. Be it through the construction projects undertaken using Ultratech Cement, or Aluminum production and recycling under Hindalco, or through the world of fashion by Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail, or through its cellular network Idea, Aditya Birla is Big not only in my life but the lives of various other people as well.
How you overcame challenges to achieve your ambitions in life so far?
"A Knight in shining armor has not yet had his mettle tested",
the battle scars on the armor show the hardships and battles you have fought and survived. The outcome of the battles is not as important as the learnings you take from the outcome. Challenges are a part and parcel of a man's journey. My father is an engineer from BITS Pilani, my mother is the Vice-Principal of Calorx Public School and my brother has graduated from NIT Trichy. These were some big steps to follow, so when the results for my engineering entrance exams came, I was happy with the score.
The admission process for engineering colleges in Gujarat started and I received a merit rank of 7500; I barely missed out on securing a seat in the open rounds to Nirma University (No.1 Engineering College in Gujarat). I joined another institute in Nadiad, 60km away from my home town Ahmedabad. 3 weeks into the course, there is a notification that Nirma University is opening another round of admissions to fill some of its vacant seats. As my college was still going on I had to take the decision to fill the form and take a risk whether I will be able to receive a seat in Nirma University.
On the day of the spot admission round, I was eagerly seated in the Auditorium along with hundreds of more eager and hopeful students and their parents. From 9 A.M in the morning till around 4:30 P.M in the evening, the tension started to grow. Once I reached the conference room where the Admission department was handling the final processes, I was eagerly waiting to hear the verdict. I still remember the look of joy on my mother's face as the representative told us, "I am giving your son the last open seat in this college".
That look of Joy is what still drives me forward to grow and make my parents and family proud.
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