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Nita Ambani on Femina Magazine Cover December 2019
“great Things Can Happen If Women Lean On Women And All Of Us Stand By Each Other
Nita mukesh ambani;
Photograph: jatin kampani; all
Clothes and accessories: nita
Ambani's own; hair and makeup:
Mickey contractor; stylist: swathi
Mohandas; fashion interns: jueelee
Chavan and saachi suvarna; senior
Creative director: meetesh taneja
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sometimes cook for them, provide support, and fund basic requirements. It’s a region where it rains incessantly for nine months straight and the ground is water-logged for most of the year; there is no internet and barely any road connectivity. The Umthli girls believe in their mission and make it to the Reliance Foundation Youth Sports (RFYS) football tournament, win the city championships, the national qualifiers, and eventually become the National Champions at the RFYS National Championship in 2017 in Mumbai. All under 14, they break into their school anthem, ‘Like a light on a hill…’ and their faces beam as they take the victory lap. Moments like these make one believe in the power of persistence. As I talk to Nita Mukesh Ambani on her reasons for reaching out to remote areas for sports tournaments, she scopes out this gem. That, in a nutshell, is her persona. A larger-than-life business name; a multitasker with a plethora of passion projects ranging from education to healthcare, sports to arts; a go-getter who packs in as much at home as at work. At our shoot in her headliner of a home, Antilia, she interacted with the crew and interns
checking if they are being well looked after; enthusiastically experimenting with her hairdo and being the hostess who truly cared. For my interview with her a day prior, she’d just returned post a long-haul flight and was in the midst of receiving a flurry of congratulatory messages for being selected as the first Indian trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), New York. Exclusive excerpts from our conversation below. Congratulations on your selection as the first Indian trustee on the Board of the MET. Since our last interview a couple of years ago to now, you’ve added many firsts, both personally and professionally. Tell us about the personal journey first.
The last 12 months have been a dream run. Personally, to see my firstborns, my twins Akash and Isha, find their life partners has been an emotional moment. To see your daughter settle down is an inexplicable emotion. Then welcoming a daughter-in-law as your own into the family. These have been the most awaited and cherished moments in my life. I had three children and now the family is larger as I count five children—it’s a beautiful, indescribable feeling
On the professional front, this year, our Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre completes five years. With that we achieved 1,000 paediatric heart surgeries. There is nothing more heartwarming than to see mothers and families go back home with healthy children. On the other hand, Reliance Foundation has impacted 34 million people in villages and communities across India. In the sphere of education, Dhirubhai Ambani International School is now in the top 10 IB schools in the world. The other schools in the list are over a 100 years old and we are just 16 years old so it’s a big achievement for everybody at the school. The bigger achievement, however, is when I meet parents of former students and they refer to their children as my children. In a way, I’m a mother of so many children. Such emotions are not tangible or materialistic
“I’VE BEEN MARRIED
TO MUKESH FOR
35 YEARS NOW
AND HE’S MY BEST
FRIEND. WE STILL
CELEBRATE ALL PERSONAL
MOMENTS TOGETHER.” of Isha’s earliest friends since they went to the same kindergarten. I came to know about Akash and Shloka later on in school, but then they graduated and went their own ways. Shloka studied in Princeton and Akash was in Brown. Then, I believe, they rekindled things after they came back to Mumbai. As a mother who gives her children space to find their own life partners, I waited for Akash to announce it. He said, ‘I want to spend the rest of my time with Shloka,’ and they got engaged. After that Isha popped up along with Anand. With Shloka, I have learned to stay fit from a person who can do 150 burpees at one go. She is a unique combination of a foodie and a fitness freak. How do two of the busiest people I know— you and Mukesh Ambani—make time for each other? On that subject, do you proceed on date nights like the rest of us? I’ve been married to Mukesh for 35 years now and
he’s my best friend. We still celebrate all personal moments together. It was my birthday recently and the family was on a holiday together. And we are still very much in love with each other. Our plans are made at the spur of the moment—he will say late in the night, ‘Let’s go for a cup of coffee,’ and we go to Sea Lounge or if it’s a day plan we head to Swati Snacks for a quick bhel or dahi batata puri. Street food is our favourite, by the way. And while he doesn’t remember too many anniversaries and dates, we make the time we get with each other special. The last year was both meaningful and eventful for us as two of our children got married while we witnessed all three of them find their career paths. Our shared beliefs also bring us together in Indore for one of the matches and out of the blue I got a call from Anand asking me if he could meet me that day. I told him I’d only be back by 3 am the next morning and sure enough, as I walk in I see Anand waiting for me along with Isha’s brothers Akash, Anant, and Shloka (Akash’s then-fiancée). He asked for everybody’s consent and since he had already spoken to Mukesh the same day, the whole family was surprised and overwhelmed at the same time. As a person, Anand has immense patience and has similar family values.
We have spoken often about the special bond you and Isha have always shared, not to mention how you have similar taste in fashion and the same size in shoes. Have the dynamics changed since she got married and moved out? At first, it was difficult for me to understand what she meant when she’d wave out to me saying she was heading home. I’d turn around and say, ‘Where are you going? This is your home.’ That was a serious emotional tug because Mukesh and I had really struggled to have our firstborns, Isha and Akash, for eight years after marriage. My daughter has her own life, and of course, I miss her but it’s also bitter-sweet because she is now the nurturer of her own family. It’s sometimes the smallest of things like getting ready together or having dinner together that one misses. Even now when she is getting ready for an evening out, she FaceTimes me her changes. The good thing is she is with me at work and is leading Reliance Retail while working in Jio, but like me, she has found her passion for education. I’ve given her the wings to fly and now her husband has to be the wind beneath her wings.
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