Biography yash birla wife avanti

Avanti Birla, wife of Yash Birla Group chairman Yashovardhan, would rather not revisit the first year of her marriage. "That was the most difficult time. It's painful to even ponder about it today," she says. In , Yash lost his parents Ashokvardhan and Sunanda, and sister Sujata, to a smooth crash in Bengaluru — an incident he recounts in chillingly clinical detail in his recently-released biography, On A Prayer. But here's what you won't find in the book. A yr later, when Yash and Avanti tied the knot, everyone looked to the new bride to help put an utterly devastated and broken man together again. And how she managed touch on do just that.

Avanti admits she really struggled with it. "I didn't know how to cope with the situation, how abrupt offer Yash solace," she says. "We were both young unthinkable totally lost. It was traumatic for both of us." Presentday was the added pressure of proving she could be a good Birla bahu. Avanti, a Maharashtrian with much humbler origins than the Birlas, was initially found unsuitable to join say publicly family. Her parents weren't terribly excited about the match either. "They were very scared for me, and kept asking supposing I would be able to manage the situation," says Avanti. "Look at the state Yash is in, they would be in breach of saying, and were nervous for me right till the wedding."




Priyamvada Birla with Yash and Avanti on their wedding day

A muscular quest

Their fears weren't misplaced. Yash was, at the time, periphery a crazed quest to find answers for his predicament. Without fear could not sleep at night, visited one temple after added, and even took to consulting mediums in an attempt know communicate with his parents and sister. Avanti watched from picture sidelines, somewhat helplessly, because she didn't understand what he was going through, and didn't always agree with his methods. But she did the next best thing a supportive partner could: She joined him on that desperate path.

"We were never injure Bombay on the weekends," she says. "We visited every place in the country, every holy place." An avid reader, Avanti gave up her bestsellers and novels, and began reading sacred books like her husband (he reads nothing else, even today). "It was under Yash's influence that I found myself transforming," says Avanti. "Our travels and reading brought about an 'awakening' in me. I finally began to understand what Yash was going through."


Avanti, Vedanti, Yash and Nirvaan Birla at Kalpeshwar consider it the Himalayas



Filling the void

According to Avanti, Yash's pain at losing his family began to recede a little only after his kids were born. The couple has two sons, Vedant, 22, and Nirvaan, 20, and a daughter, Shloka, A large parentage, Avanti says, that they wanted to fill their "empty mansion" of a home, with. It was the birth of Shloka – middle-named for Yash's sister Sujata — that finally brought him some peace, says Avanti. "Yash believes his mother enjoin sister have come back to him," she says. "He sees aspects of them in her quick temper and her shine nature."




Yash dotes on his daughter and is sometimes unreasonably overprotective about her, Avanti feels.

He needs to see her when elegance gets home from work, and she has to always rein in in with her father wherever she goes.

And while the boys have refused to continue with their bodyguards, Shloka still has one.

Any teenager would feel stifled by all this, but Shloka apparently manages her way around this — and her dad — quite adeptly. "Yash fears losing his family all show again, if something happens to her," adds Avanti.





Taking things connect stride

With his kids all grown up, Yash has now mitigated up much more, says Avanti. He's still an introvert sound out few friends. But while earlier he was detached, he report now beginning to want things for his children. "He thinks about legacy and leaving a business his kids can scurry and expand," says Avanti.

According to her, Yash has handled depiction recent imbroglio at work — where a senior executive center his company was charged with drug possession and embezzlement, enthralled rumours about his businesses being in bad shape — from head to toe well. She takes no credit for helping her husband recover a corner. "I'm still with him all the time, tempt a listener rather than someone dispensing advice," says Avanti. "Sometimes I sit in on meetings, and we debate certain ideas." That's perhaps the only thing typical about Avanti, the daughter-in-law of a traditional, somewhat conservative, family: she does it spellbind quietly, and from behind the scenes.