Why Aditya Birla Group is big in your life.
If I have to talk about why Aditya Birla Group is big in my life, I would probably start from my very own house. My father chose none other than Ultratech cement for the house that binds our family together and becomes our safe haven. Since the time I had started to acquire some basic sense of fashion, Pantaloons has always resonated with me. While shopping with my mother throughout all these years, I had not only created memories but also learnt my mother’s perspective of fashion, and how fashion has evolved from their generation to ours. Pantaloons helped my mom to transform her views about modern day fashion and that has made my life easy in ways unimaginable. Coming to some other aspects of my life, Idea cellular network has always been a chosen network in my house and then with the advent of the merger with Vodafone, it has become the second largest cellular network provider globally. So in a way, Aditya Birla Group has been the trunk which has hold all the branches of the family together, no matter where the members have been across the country. Finally, now that I am in a management college, I have found Allen Solly (a division of Aditya Birla Fashion Retail and Lifestyle) to be the most comfortable business formal brand for someone who is not at all habituated to such heavy clothing.
So, in the world’s picture, Aditya Birla Group might be a Fortune 500 company but to individuals like us, it has been a support and lifestyle brand.
How you overcame challenges to achieve your ambitions in life so far.
Talking about challenges in life, I don’t have any one major challenge that I have overcome; instead, it has been a continuous series of minor challenges against the somewhat conservative mindset of my family. I was born and brought up in Kolkata in a Bengali family where education was given utmost importance but was not appreciated at all to socialize or network. My family had an expectation of me to become a teacher or a doctor because that suits a woman according to them. I would have had a 9-5 work schedule or could have set up the work schedule according to my wish. The rest of the time should ideally be devoted to my family. In high school I realised that I did not want to become a doctor but I liked biology as a subject and as a result ended up taking Life Sciences as my honours subject in graduation. During my college days I wanted to participate in college fests and other occasions but my parents were not very supportive of it. Looking at their way of seeing life and realising my knack for being outgoing and connecting with people, I ended up deciding to pursue MBA as my masters degree. It took almost an year to bring my parents totally on the same track as mine to be able to support me. They just could not push away the thought that the corporate world is a man’s world and it is not suitable for a woman to work there and to have a proper work-life balance. I did not keep any stone unturned in the way of convincing my family. I know this is a very regular struggle faced by many Indian girls but nevertheless it’s a struggle because of which a lot give up on their dreams and ambitions. But I believe the more women comes together, the more they can stand for each other to make every environment supporting and nurturing for themselves so that their families don’t have to hold them back.
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