Aspirations and dedicated hard work are the two basic pillars on which rest the core fundamentals of success. These are the two things that drive any company in achieving the great heights which is evident on looking back at the history of Aditya Birla Group with its glorious history spanning over 162 years with a diverse portfolio of companies spreading across banking, branded apparel, cement, metals, mining, etc. sectors. My first encounter with ABG Group started when I went to visit my maternal grandmother at Birla Nagar-Gwalior, where she used to work for Madhya Pradesh Government as Medical Officer.
Also, the fresh smell of the home-cooked food wrapped in Freshwrapp brings back the nostalgia of the school days today itself. Moving further in life, it was like that ABG plunged out to be a soul companion on the journey from shopping for formals for the campus interviews at Nirma University to being an onsite Engineer, where Ultra-tech Cement and concrete were things around which my life started revolving.
Now walking across the campus of the IIM Raipur, it is Vodafone and Idea that keep me connected to my parents at home and it becomes very special when you can sense the joy of seeing your proud mother on a video call.
It was during August last year (2018) when I decided that I want to pursue an MBA in my life and started preparing for my CAT which was to take place in November 2018.
I took all notices of my past records and evaluated that I needed to score high to make it to any good B-School and started meticulously preparing for CAT. But it was on 18th September 2018 that my father while returning from morning walk was hit by a bus from behind
leaving him with multiple fractures in his hand, leg, and ribs.
All of sudden life took a deadly turn against me; I was juggling between many things from my work to CAT preparations already. But, looking upon my father’s condition I decided that an MBA could wait for a year as my father’s health should be the major concern for me. Hospital, Home, and Father became the epicenter of my life till October-2018. The thought of CAT vanished from my mind.
Upon shifting him from ICU to a normal ward in a hospital in Oct-18, my father strongly insisted that I should start preparing for CAT 2018 again and to leave the rest on the almighty. Taking his advice as a sign of god, I wholeheartedly plunged in to prepare for the CAT-18, burning the midnight oil and to my surprise, I was able to score whopping 97.15 Percentile in my CAT with just a month
of serious preparations and was able to convert IIM Raipur.
With this experience in my life, I realized whatever may be challenging, whatever the conditions may be, but where there is will, there is surely a way.
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