Aditya Birla Group- Transforming Lives- Nalin Haldwani #IIM Trichy

 Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Worli, Mumbai, India. It operates in 35 countries with more than 120,000 employees worldwide. The group was founded by Seth Shiv Narayan Birla in 1857. The Aditya Birla Group is amongst one of the few entities which has been continuing to shape the future of the world. The values of the Aditya Birla Group can be traced back to it’s legendary leaders, Ghanshyam Das Birla and Aditya Vikram Birla, who established the group’s foundation in India and all around the world. It has been almost 150 years since the foundation stone of the group was laid and since then the presence of it’s success has been felt in a vast variety of domains such as finance, textile, cement, chemicals, banking, apparel, metals, mining, fibre and many more. It has been providing product and services in a variety of domains and many of these play a significant role in our lives. The Aditya Birla Group has a variety of clothing brands such as Van Heusen, Luis Philippe, Allen Solly, Peter England and Pantaloons are amongst the some which are my favourite if I want to go shopping for daily wear or parties. The Aditya Birla Carbon is the world leader in manufacturing and supply of carbon black. It caters to the need of tire, rubber, plastic, ink and paint industries globally. The Group is the world’s largest producer of Viscose staple fibre widely used in apparels, home textiles, knitted wear and non-woven applications. In India, the group enjoys a leadership position in aluminium and downstream products such as rolled products, extrusions, foils, primary aluminium ingots, wire rods and aluminium slabs. From use of aluminium in Boeing aircrafts to screen in iPhone the presence of the group can be felt. The Aditya Birla Group also has it’s presence in other areas such as healthcare, education, sustainable livelihood programmes, infrastructure and model village. They have done a tremendous amount of work in the healthcare industry which is proven by the fact that over 1 million patients have been treated at medical camps and hospitals. They took fight against polio and helped 70 million children get immunised. I consider the Aditya Birla Group as a perfect platform to showcase my skills and abilities where I think that the efforts put in by me would be the most fruitful. It would truly be an honour to work for them and be a part of the Aditya Birla Group family.

Lost Cause To Cause Found

I am Nalin Haldwani from Delhi. This is my journey from the bottom of chaos to one of the best business schools of the country. Childhood was a difficult time for me. I was born to do over achieving doctors from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and even early on, I knew that the syringe and the scalpel were not many things. The biggest turning point was in my higher secondary. I bit the bullet and joined the science group in class 11. The moment I opened my text books for the first time, the all too familiar childhood fear of aimlessness was apparent. I knew I was a misfit there. My parents called it a day and shifted me to the Commerce Group in my class 12. It was a difficult task for me to complete the syllabus for two years within 10 months. I did manage to complete it, and thereafter, I joined Bachelors of Commerce course thinking that Chartered Accountacy was what I wanted to become. To my rude surprise, it wasn’t. I was good in accounting, but I knew that this was not where I wanted to go. After graduating, I made the most difficult choice yet: taking a step back and introspecting. It took me two years to understand myself, know what I want from life. The answer so simple: I wanted to help people like my parents did, and I was lost because I thought medicine was the only way to do so. My life’s dream is to start, or work in, a socially responsible firm. And I believe that a business school would be the best place for me to reach the destination. I am Nalin and this is my story. If you feel overwhelmed, do not hesitate to take a step back. Your life is only for you, and for nobody else.