Page 6 - Seniorstoday March 2024 Issue

Cover Story

What makes

Tina Ambani tick

For the first time ever, in a tete-a-tete with Vickram Sethi, Tina Ambani
speaks about her journey from the world of glamour to art, senior citizens
and her role of leading CSR and education at the Reliance Group. And of
course her family…

She has been described in countless ways: with her “fabulous team” in the boardroom
glamorous star, corporate wife, fashionista. of the award-winning Kokilaben Dhirubhai
But ask Tina Ambani to describe herself Ambani Hospital, which is rapidly growing
and the answer may surprise you. “I’m a its national footprint, charting out the CSR
working woman,” she says succinctly with plan for the Reliance Group or supervising
a no-nonsense nod of her head, softened by the construction of her new hospital, her
a flash of her easy smile. “I’m really not that commitment to every project is complete
different from the Indian everywoman who and her schedule relentless.
has professional commitments by day and “Tina is a strong believer in the motto
personal obligations to the family when she of my late father Dhirubhai Ambani
comes home.” that work is worship,” affirms her
A closer look into her routine reveals that husband Anil. “Tina is a ‘size zero’ as
she really does walk her talk. Behind the she can comfortably slip into any role as
trappings of a luxe life is a woman who demanded! From a mother, a wife and
has painstakingly charted her own course sister to the leader of a hospital, she is
and, in the process, crafted a professional a visionary who converts dreams into
regimen that occupies much of her time reality.”
and space. Equally at ease in discussion Hard work has always been wired in

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