It was one beautiful life. I had experienced 17 years of bliss filling my diaries with beautiful memories of life. Growing up in the beautiful streets of Nepal, surrounded by lakes and mountains, my childhood went by faster than Chennai express. Every moment felt like a blessing till a day came and changed my life forever. That one day changed it all completely. My neighborhood, that I grew up in with so many unforgettable memories were all gone in the blink of an eye.
Born and brought up in the cultural serenity of Nepal, my life was a perfect book. Temples signifying the evolution we went through, statues highlighting the history we had, and towers replicating our pride, Nepal was a dreamland I wish never changed. However, destiny had some ideas for me and my fellow countrymen. On a gloomy morning on 25
th April 2015, Nepal’s history was all set to readjust. It has been 4 years since that horrendous memory, but still, that memory relinquishes like if it was yesterday. On 11:56 am of that cold morning, Nepal took a blow like never before. A 7.2 Richter-scale earthquake hit the country with all its force. Life in Nepal has never been the same again.
After just finishing my launch, I was all set for my Saturday afternoon nap. But life doesn’t always turn out like you want it to be, does it? Mother nature, with all its force, released all its grief in a 14-second span, which changed the lives of thousands of Nepalese. It was just 14 seconds, but I still remember how I felt as if it was 14 years, and I was Kausalya waiting for my Ram to come back. Calmness restored after an eternity of madness, and I hurried down to the streets. It was as if I had never been there. Gone were those beautiful temples that my home was surrounded by. Gone were those neighborhood homes where I played hide and seek. And gone were all my childhood memories along with it. But what next? Do I leave all my countrymen in despair and just celebrate that my home was alright? Or do I actually do something for the society I grew up in? The answer was obvious. This is where Aditya Birla group came in like a knight in shining armor.
Everyone knew that those thousand-year-old monuments that got destroyed in the quake needed to be reconstructed, so we could restore our pride once more. But how do we get it done? That’s when Birla cement came in my life with its tagline ‘
Majbuti Aur Biswas ka doosra Naam, Birla cement.’ After forming a volunteer group with some of my people of the locality, we decided to take a step forward in aiding my country to stand on its feet by its own. We knew we had to build those monuments back again. But how do we do it? How can a group of 50 people construct all those damaged monuments? We knew all of it was not practically possible, however, we could definitely take an initiative at least and rebuild the temple we grew up worshiping in. But how was that possible?
It needed a lot of strength, both mental and physical, to make that possible. That was the ‘Majbuti’ we were seeking for. But strength alone wasn’t enough. We actually needed to believe in ourselves that we can get back to where we were before. That was the ‘Biswas’ part we craved. And there was one thing we still required to complement our ‘Majbuti’ and ‘Biswas’. We needed a reliable cement to glue both of them and to create a monument, and the world knows there aren’t many cement companies more reliable than Birla Cement. Aditya Birla group knowingly or unknowingly was one of the major reason behind Nepal’s rehabilitation. Thousands of monuments that quake destroyed was rebuilt one by one, and much of it was rebuild using Birla cement.
The job is still not done. We are still recovering from the tragedy that hit us. There have been times when the country felt like we could never get back to how we were before. But Birla cement, with its uncompromisingly quality, has stood alongside the hope of Nepalese to restore our cultural heritages and rebuild them one after the other. Despite me being unsure of where this story will land up in, I would like to take this opportunity to actually thank the Aditya Birla group for standing beside my country when we needed you the most. Thank you for all the wonderful range of services you have expanded to our country. And I am not alone, 30 million Nepalese shares the same feeling.