Subrata Roy

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Work: The first step towards success

As the Managing Worker & Chairman of Sahara India Pariwar, Subrata Roy started his journey with a vision propelled by the belief that ‘emotion’ is the key to success, with meager savings of Rs. 2000 in the year 1978 with a table and two chairs, one small office, a Lambretta scooter and a staff of one clerk and a runner boy. In a span of 30years, he has created an conglomerate with diversified business interests in Finance, Real Estate, Media & Entertainment, Tourism & Hospitality, and Services & Trading.

Subrata actually is not a Businessman in the conventional sense but a god, guardian, a leader, a guide to his family. In this emotionally integrated family nobody ever felt the need of a trade union – the most profound example of corporate discipline, achieved through his vision.

"Today I feel proud that I am the Guardian of the World’s Largest Family. Perhaps I am the world’s only person whose family is so vast, so disciplined, so dedicated and so committed”, he states proudly.

Till date he has not given up his tryst with innovations and novel ideas & ventures continue to reverberate in the hallways of his thoughts. It is his firm belief that PROGRESS IS PROGRESS ONLY WHEN IT IS CONTINUOUS & QUALITATIVE.


Life: Making of a Visionary

One day, young Subrata was screaming at the 'Dhobi' for not ironing his shirt properly. The first question his father, Sudhir Chandra Roy, asked his son when he heard him screaming was, "Isn't he elder to you? Can you iron this shirt?" Young Subrata Roy Sahara nodded his head - 'No'. "Then you have no right to scream at him. He knows the job better than you. Touch his feet and say sorry", said Sudhir Chandra. Young Subrata Roy Sahara followed the instructions and learned one of the most important lessons of his life : no job or talent is too small, any kind of expertise is invaluable and most importantly, all elders, every man is respectable irrespective of caste, creed or status.

Born to a noted sugar technologist, Shri Sudhir Chandra Roy and his pious housewife, Smt. Chhabi Roy, Subrata Roy Sahara was second amongst two brothers and two sisters and was closest to his father (All the children affectionately addressed their father as "Babuji" and mother as "Mamoni"). Sudhir Chandra instilled values in all the four children through day-to-day chores. A diploma holder in Mechanical Engineering, Subrata Roy Sahara valued every teaching of his father's as the most important lesson in life, right from the beginning. Like when he tore young Subrata Roy Sahara's shirt. “I was cribbing over a small tear in my favourite shirt. My father took the shirt and tore it completely”, he recollects, “I was even more hurt.” Then he said to me, “rather than loving materialistic things, learn to love fellow human beings. Never get so deeply attached to something materialistic or lifeless”.

“In those days my father would put us - brothers and sisters, under the supervision of the gardener. He would summon the gardener and say to him - 'These children will work under you for the next four to six hours. You are their teacher. Teach them all the aspects of gardening - how seeds are sown, how saplings are planted, how plants are grown, how they are watered, how the grass is grown,' and so on. In this manner, we gained our education. Off and on, father would ask me to call upon my friends and I would do so. Then he would say - 'Go, clean the colony, pick up the broom, clear the roads and clean the filth from the drains'.

The qualities of leadership and management were instilled in young Subrata Roy Sahara through his very active involvement in NCC. As he says, "One thing that actually helped me to become the person I am was my involvement with NCC. NCC taught me discipline, leadership, a keen sense of duty towards everyone and above all, towards the nation".

He married "Swapna" in the year 1974. In Swapna he found a soul-mate, who was as much a friend as a wife to him. A friend who stood by his side at every step, in every endeavour, even when he decided on his foray into the all-new Deposit Mobilisation venture with no sound financial backing at all. His biggest assets for his new business venture were his determination, commitment, the lessons he had learnt from life, his stint with the NCC and last but not the least, the teachings of his Babuji. Thus, commenced his trek on the path of perennial success.

“Always be contented in receiving and discontented in giving" was the golden mantra Babuji gave him. Subrata Roy Sahara is giving new meanings to every lesson he learnt from 'Babuji', whose birth anniversary he celebrates as 'Jyoti Diwas', every year on the 1st of April.

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