Sun Rise In Life

Just like MC MARY KOM, one more person took birth on 28 December, 1932 in Night session of life at small village Chorwad, district Junagarh of Gujarat. Chorwad was then, a small village about midway between the historic fort of Diu to the south and the fishing port of Porbandar to the north. Porbandar is the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi. Name Dhirajlal, third of five children (2 girls, 3 boys). His father Hirachand was earning little as the village schoolteacher. His father was, a man of simple habits and lived a measured life. His mother, Jamanaben, was a thrifty woman and knew how to stretch every paisa a long way. Long years of hardship had taught her to handle with great care whatever little money Hirabhai gave her every month on the pay day. But even her thrifty ways often failed to pull her growing family through the month. On such occasions she had to borrow small amounts of money from neighbours. She did not hide such stark realities like A Night from her children, for she did not want to give them a false start in life. Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani  known as Dhirubhai Ambani

Overall, Hirachandbhai and Jamanaben lived a life of impoverished dignity with their two daughters and three sons--Trilochanaben, Ramnikbhai, Jasuben, Dhirubhai and Natubhai. Dhirubhai’s birth was like in A Dark Night of his life. His father’s income was short and they were 7 lives to fill.

Though, Dhirubhai was precocious and highly intelligent and also as highly impatient of the oppressive grinding mill of the school classroom. Formal education was not his forte, he realized very early in life. He was essentially an outdoors boy. When asked to choose a task at home, at school or at the boys' hostel, he always chose the most strenuous task that called for immense physical energy and stamina. Not that he was poor in doing his school lessons but just that he did not enjoy all the mugging up and learning by rote which school education required those days. In these days of Dark Night, he was used to say his mother Jamnaben that “paisa no to dhanglo karees." (Why do you keep screaming for money? I'll make heaps of money one day.). Dream was bigger than possibility in Darkness of Night of life.

He once procured a tin of groundnut oil on credit from a local whole seller and sold the oil in retail sitting on the roadside, earning a profit of a few rupees that he gave to his mother. Next, he began selling bhajia or onion and potato fries stalls at village fairs during weekends when his school was closed. (Few steps to make Lights in Night).

When he was 16 years old, just completion of his matriculation(10^th) examination and before results was out, his father called him home at Chorwad and told - "Dhiru, do you know why I have called you here?" Hirachandbhai asked his son the very Night he reached home. "Well, I'll tell you. You know I have been unwell for past several months. I cannot work anymore. I know you want to study further but I can't afford that any more (the Dark Night). I need you to earn for the family. I need your money. The family needs it. You must work now. Ramnikbhai has arranged a job for you in Aden. You go there."

Dhirubhai had really wanted to study for a bachelor's degree, but his ambition melted when he looked into the anxious eyes of his sick father. "I'll do as you say, Hirabhai," he said and the very next morning he left for Rajkot to get his passport. Those days Indians did not need a visa for entering Aden but there were rumours around that the no visa regime was about to change any day. So he needed to hurry up before the visa rules changed. In a few days he was in Bombay to board the ship to Aden. Dhirubhai had passed his matriculation examination in second division. He moved to Aden, Yemen. He worked there as a gas-station attendant (filling gas in vehicles) as well as a clerk in oil company for salary of just Rs. 300/- with A.Besse & Co. Dhirubhai was first sent to the commodities trading section of the firm. Later, he was transferred to the section that handled petroleum products for the oil giant Shell. He was quick on the uptake. He learnt the ways of commodity trading, high seas purchase and sales, marketing and distribution, currency trading, and money management. During lunch break he roamed the souks and bazaars of Aden where traders from numerous different continents and countries bought and sold goods worth millions of pound sterling, Dhirubhai felt tempted to speculate but had no money for that and was still raw for such trading. To learn the tricks of the trade he offered to work free for a Gujarati trading firm. There he learnt accounting, book keeping, preparing shipping papers and documents, and dealing with banks and insurance companies. Skills that would come handy when he launched himself into trading about a decade afterwards in Bombay. At the Besse office during the day he polished his skills in typing and Pitman shorthand, drafting commercial letters, and composing legal documents. After 10 years of hardship he came back to in 1958. This is the when he felt

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In India he first started RELIANCE COMMERCIAL CORPORATION in partnership in 1962 and then separately in 1965. Today’s RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LTD.

Dhirubhai Ambani's his great achievement was that he showed Indians what was possible. With no Oxford or Yale degree and no family capital, he achieved what the Elite "brown sahibs" of New Delhi could not: he built an ultramodern, profitable, global enterprise in India itself. What's more, he enlisted four million Indians, a generation weaned on nanny-state socialism, in an adventure in can-do capitalism, convincing them to load up on Reliance stock.

Still, Ambani seems destined to be remembered as a folk hero—an example of what a man from one of India's poor villages can accomplish with non-shrink ambition. The Sun of Indian industries.

If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

Dhirubhai Ambani

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