Why ABG is big in your life?
Aditya Birla Group is one of India's largest conglomerates. The company acts as a holding company for more than 72 manufacturing and service subsidiaries across the globe. What makes a company successful? Is it the turnover? Is it global outreach? Or the number of business ventured? I do not agree with this. I think that these aspects are just the byproduct of virtuous business. The real essence lies in its people. The vision and mission of its founders and the people who have lived up by the name and made the company a colossal success. The vision of Shiv Narayan Birla in around 1870s has given India its one of the biggest industries of all time. He started with the cotton and jute industry in his hometown and did not succumb to the British monopolies. The endeavour of Shiv Narayan Birla and his successors gave us this opportunity to make our lives big in a true sense.
Every day when I wake up and my feet touches floor I realise its made of UltraTech Cement. The shelter which I have on my head is because of this. As I take my phone to call my parents I see Vodafone Idea network which enables me to connect to my loved ones as I have been living away from my parents from last eight years. When I grab the newspaper, its Hindustan Times which is owned by KK Birla group. After that when I happen to wear clothes for my college I realise my shirt and blazer is from Van Heusen, my pants and bellies are from Pantaloons. As I eat my food I realise maybe the fertilisers used in growing these vegetables is 'Birla Shaktiman'. As I sit in my car to reach my college I realise the tyres have carbon black from Birla Carbon; the aluminium used is from Hindalco which is an ABG subsidiary. Knowingly or unknowingly I am associated to these products each day.
My grandfather who is no more was a huge fan of Grasim Suitings and so is my father. My father also has invested in Birla Sun Life Insurance. Aditya Birla Group products have not only made our present beautiful but also made our future head and shoulders above.
I truly agree this is the brand which speaks for itself.
How you overcame challenges to achieve your ambitions in life so far?
Challenges and problems are nothing. They are only the way you perceive it. Every problem has a solution. Rather every problem exists because there is a solution to it. Like every life, my life also had a problem and a difficult situation which I overcame. It was during my B.E. days when I was unfocused and not serious for my career and learnings. I did not gain any skills which are required for any engineer to flourish in his/her field. Four years passed by just reading one day before exams and passing each exam. I never realised the loopholes of not gaining skills in college until I faced the real world during my campus placements.
There were a few I.T. Companies who visited our campus and I was not selected in any of them. That was the time I realised that I had no relevant skills and those four years which I had almost wasted is not going to come back. After repeated failures, I was demotivated, depressed and had no skills. All my friends were placed somewhere and I had become a loner. Days passed by and college was over. I was out in the open sun with no skills and no motivation to learn something new. I landed up in Bangalore the so-called I.T. hub with all the I.T. talent in the whole country. I took charge of my failures, gathered all my positive energy and made a plan. A plan that changed my life and it came out to be the best one. I learned and upgraded my technical skills. I got selected in one of the Fortune 500 companies. I was one among those selected 100 from a crowd of 2500. This skyrocketed my confidence and from that time I have never looked back. The results speak for itself as I am doing my masters from TISS.
I would like to finish this write up from a one-liner "There is nothing called as a failure, everything is a delayed success"
