count your memories not your calories I
am here today to tell you just not about
my story but also about how the universe
comes along plays along to achieve to
let you achieve what you have asked for
trust me it works
do what you love love what you do has
been my motto in life forever ask it
believe it it yeah correct lines from
the book the secrets has been my Bible
always so I would like to tell you a few
things a little story for how I started
this married at the age of 18 you must
be wondering who does that I did that it
was my choice and that’s how it went on
I would run away doing workshops bunking
my college lectures would call my mother
from there and tell her mom you know
what I bunked my lecture today and I’m
doing this workshop no because
creativity has been in my blood my mind
and it haunts me I would tell her please
come up and pay if you were me back home
she would be mad at me shilling are you
crazy
where I been in Bombay I you right now
and I would tell her I would give her
the address I said why are you comin I
have to get back home you know and when
I would get back home she would bring
the roof down one day I decided let me
show my mom my creativity and misery to
bake a cake from what I had learned in
one of the workshops you cannot imagine
that cake the most beautiful looking
cake ever just
until my dad took the first bite and he
looked at me and he said wow what a cake
you’ve made I don’t think in my life I
can ever have any more cakes after this
I was thrilled and jumping with joy
just before I dived into the cake to
grab a bite I almost threw up instead of
adding two teaspoons of baking soda
I added two tablespoons of baking soda
the cake had fluffed up to an extent
that I tried making a one-tailed cake it
automatically became a three-tier cake
it was that big in high my mom told me
shred are not going to get anywhere in
your life you know these workshops don’t
work you either choose to study or you
choose the kitchen I was wondering what
was that
choose the kitchen or choose to study
what was it traditions as you call it
either we get a degree just for namesake
you know or get married I said brilliant
idea wow what an idea that sounds like a
plan I told my mom you mean if I get
married no more studying
she said yeah obviously who studies
after marriage
so no more study I said get get me
married get me married I’m done like
skip from my studies
guys I got married at the age of 18 you
know and in a family where my
father-in-law is a doctor Wow
blessing in disguise you know after
marriage he came around to tell me you
know what you I think you should study
at least for another two years
to get your degree I looked at him with
a blank face
I said not again no whales that was just
my mind thought I couldn’t speak up you
know and being and brought up in a city
like Mumbai coming to Coimbatore was
itself an achievement by itself and to
tell you the truth just when the city
lights in Mumbai came on this city was
ready to sleep the language was Greek to
me let me correct myself is still Greek
to me and I thought it was my plan was a
great plan of getting married but this
was a master plan I said I don’t know
who’s involved in this all on the Gaia
cool I think I right I have to study I
have no choice
fine done back again I was in Mumbai to
get my degree
so I studied two years after marriage
the day of my results when my parents
went to get my result they did not find
my name in any of the lists there they
sat down on a chair with a long sad face
just when somebody came around and told
them that what’s the matter they said a
daughter has given her final year and we
don’t seem to find her name anyway she’s
terribly failed I have heard of
something like failed I have not heard
of something like terribly failed I
don’t know what that means so they were
like
you know you have a reason Bombay we
could write three papers for them
terribly failed means writing all six
papers again and there were like we
forced her into it it was thinking on
you know into themselves he we forced
her to do this and she told us that she
is not made for this she can’t study and
this and that and all that poor child
has failed and what is she going to tell
everybody in what are we gonna tell the
society actually who cares about that
but yeah they did that man told them
there’s another this put up there in the
college side for all the people who’ve
done who passed the first class they
were like is this man crazy I’m talking
about terribly failed and he’s talking
about first class she said okay fine
let’s let’s give it a shot you know what
my name was right there so I got a
degree with of first class
[Applause]
what I am trying to tell you here is
never underestimate yourself please
that’s the last thing you should do you
can be oblivion
to what’s happening around you but never
be in Oblivion
to what’s inside you here I would tell
you about the language disaster that I
made after marriage my house helper just
five days after marriage came and asked
me in her language huh something to do
with the sorry I didn’t understand what
she was saying I said yeah I got a kid
take it it’s fine it’s okay go and she
was probably asking me something else I
understood something else and pretty
woman walking down the street two days
ahead of this she comes in that sorry
home I’m like what is this she I thought
she was asking me whether she could take
the sari to iron she meant can I take
this sari away and you know what it
wasn’t my sari it was my mother-in-law
sorry
I didn’t know what to do when I mother
lost saw her in that sari she looked at
me she looked at her I just wanted to
hide behind the sofa trust me it did ndo
my kitchen disasters if I can recall one
my mother not told me we have some
guests coming over can you make some
cold coffee I said of course was then a
cold coffee just had coffee milk sugar
big deal I went to the kitchen to make
that I put so much of ice into it left
no space for the you know top of the jar
it flung so high there was cold coffee
in every part of the kitchen from the
ceiling to the floor and I didn’t know
what to tell her I made other two
glasses it does not end here with the
cold coffee I was on the visitors lap
when I serve them I really don’t know
what to do I said I don’t know why mom
told me choose a kitchen and choose
chooses degree this and that I wish I’d
never chosen that in my life really the
other day when I tried making pani puri
and when I was done with it
I realize it’s two stars so I should add
some water to it and I just left that
bowl for the water to fill in somebody
called me I went out of the kitchen
forgot all about it when I came back in
ten minutes
the bowl was to still clear because the
water was down the entire green water
was on the floor I was like it’s not my
cup of tea I really don’t think I should
go anywhere close to the kitchen you
know even before I could make sense of
marriage and pots and pans in the
kitchen my angel an angel was born when
I was 22 and my bundle of joy at 26 once
again my dreams my
passion shattered truly speaking but I’m
very thankful to God today that I put my
personal interest back in the burner to
let it roast when I chose family over my
passion I would tell you guys that if
you get a chance and if you can afford
it if your circumstances allow that
there is nothing more rewarding than
this in life well a small story comes
into my mind when I talk about my kids
just when my kids were little suddenly I
heard some kind of a noise from
somewhere I ran to the kitchen and do
you know what I see my children throwing
fruits at each other I was shocked I
said I’ve never seen or I have never
done something so funny why because my
daughter called her toddler brother a
mango just for that and he told me it’s
the worst thing anybody can call anybody
is a mango she does not know she’s a
strawberry and this just went on all the
damn fruits came out from the kitchen
from the fridge and it was all over the
place into each other I was shocked
can you imagine missing these little
pleasures in life if you don’t decide
something in the right way is what I am
trying to convey I am so happy today
that I put my passion on the side at
that time in my life
the turning page was a turning point in
my life he would really wonder what that
was
well I feel everybody sitting here in
this room today is empowered the only
thing what we need to do is bring it to
the surface voice it loud to the
universe
trust me it will all work right at the
right time I’m very sure about that
try it and you’ll know it her I was
looking after children I gave in those
many number of my years looking after
them because I was well aware of my
responsibilities then handing to
children’s at that point of time having
two children here comes another little
story we’re gathered all my guts again
to bake okay so I was just measuring my
ingredients
when my son entered the world of my
kitchen hang on don’t laugh huh this
time he turned the page I was doing
another recipe the page turned I mixed
two recipes together but wait have you
guys heard when two people get married
from absolutely different community
community or communities you know like
say an American and an Indian the
children born are beautiful that gave
birth to a fantastic brownie I never
looked back and I knew this is it this
is where I am going to be this is what I
am going to do and it was just a
fortunately it was an unfortunate
disaster but that’s when my bakery was
born soon after that even before I had
really put my hands into it a week later
my son went and told the teacher that
tomorrow
my mom plans to send brownies for the
entire class for what joy I don’t know
and he came home and he told me you know
what tomorrow have to take like 75
brownies to class the teachers asked for
it I was like but how does she know what
my bran Singh of course I told her and I
told that you are going to send it
tomorrow for all my friends I said are
you crazy
I mean 75 brownies who makes that at
6:30 6:30 in the evening is when he
comes and tells me that trust me guys I
was making those Downey’s till midnight
to send it with him the next morning it
was all worth it the teachers called me
congratulated me on the fantastic job I
had done thankfully and yeah and that’s
when I decided I am going to take this
up as my courier so you heard what I am
trying to tell you is if you are forced
into things in life it does not work
please voice her opinion around there
are too many struggles in life too many
but these elements are important to
bring out the best potential in you to
bring out the best in you the universe
will definitely throw so many atom bombs
on you that you will one day feel I am
completely not made for this but until
and unless somebody presses you down
where you till the tentative can’t
breathe you cannot spring up it’s not
possible I too faced many challenges
coming from an orthodox society working
outside the house was a complete tab
back in those days we all didn’t work
even from home to tell you the truth but
I decided to start something from the
house for me to convince my people at
home itself was a big struggle and
challenge for me leave alone the society
who did everything and anything to put
me down to pull me down they spoke so
much about me
so that I could lead this work saying
that Oh Shi
you know what is wrong with her she’s
not looking after her kids she has no
family values there’s that blah and they
just went on they wouldn’t stop they
wouldn’t stop even today I just smiled
at them and told God please bless them
they really need your blessings and
that’s how I went on that’s how I go on
even today and that is what I would tell
you people also everything does not have
to be revolutionary you don’t have to
rebel you don’t have to fight you can
smile your way around through sweet
things it works it really does and Here
I am today with my startup called brown
sugar and once again I was back to
school six years before this I joined
school again for my beakers degree so
but this time it was because of my
choice and this time I had to convince
people in the house that I want to study
can I go and I was back to Bombay
because I had to stay there for like a
couple of months till I could finish my
course and did a Baker’s degree with the
second ranking so it’s never too late in
life to go back to school to go back to
college to go back to what you want to
do all of you are still so very young
that you can try your hands at anything
and everything you want and then decide
there’s nothing like this is the best
and that’s the best what you think is
the best is actually the best Here I am
today
a proud beaker and a proud homemaker so
I conclude with this
and all the best to all of you in life [Applause]
am here today to tell you just not about
my story but also about how the universe
comes along plays along to achieve to
let you achieve what you have asked for
trust me it works
do what you love love what you do has
been my motto in life forever ask it
believe it it yeah correct lines from
the book the secrets has been my Bible
always so I would like to tell you a few
things a little story for how I started
this married at the age of 18 you must
be wondering who does that I did that it
was my choice and that’s how it went on
I would run away doing workshops bunking
my college lectures would call my mother
from there and tell her mom you know
what I bunked my lecture today and I’m
doing this workshop no because
creativity has been in my blood my mind
and it haunts me I would tell her please
come up and pay if you were me back home
she would be mad at me shilling are you
crazy
where I been in Bombay I you right now
and I would tell her I would give her
the address I said why are you comin I
have to get back home you know and when
I would get back home she would bring
the roof down one day I decided let me
show my mom my creativity and misery to
bake a cake from what I had learned in
one of the workshops you cannot imagine
that cake the most beautiful looking
cake ever just
until my dad took the first bite and he
looked at me and he said wow what a cake
you’ve made I don’t think in my life I
can ever have any more cakes after this
I was thrilled and jumping with joy
just before I dived into the cake to
grab a bite I almost threw up instead of
adding two teaspoons of baking soda
I added two tablespoons of baking soda
the cake had fluffed up to an extent
that I tried making a one-tailed cake it
automatically became a three-tier cake
it was that big in high my mom told me
shred are not going to get anywhere in
your life you know these workshops don’t
work you either choose to study or you
choose the kitchen I was wondering what
was that
choose the kitchen or choose to study
what was it traditions as you call it
either we get a degree just for namesake
you know or get married I said brilliant
idea wow what an idea that sounds like a
plan I told my mom you mean if I get
married no more studying
she said yeah obviously who studies
after marriage
so no more study I said get get me
married get me married I’m done like
skip from my studies
guys I got married at the age of 18 you
know and in a family where my
father-in-law is a doctor Wow
blessing in disguise you know after
marriage he came around to tell me you
know what you I think you should study
at least for another two years
to get your degree I looked at him with
a blank face
I said not again no whales that was just
my mind thought I couldn’t speak up you
know and being and brought up in a city
like Mumbai coming to Coimbatore was
itself an achievement by itself and to
tell you the truth just when the city
lights in Mumbai came on this city was
ready to sleep the language was Greek to
me let me correct myself is still Greek
to me and I thought it was my plan was a
great plan of getting married but this
was a master plan I said I don’t know
who’s involved in this all on the Gaia
cool I think I right I have to study I
have no choice
fine done back again I was in Mumbai to
get my degree
so I studied two years after marriage
the day of my results when my parents
went to get my result they did not find
my name in any of the lists there they
sat down on a chair with a long sad face
just when somebody came around and told
them that what’s the matter they said a
daughter has given her final year and we
don’t seem to find her name anyway she’s
terribly failed I have heard of
something like failed I have not heard
of something like terribly failed I
don’t know what that means so they were
like
you know you have a reason Bombay we
could write three papers for them
terribly failed means writing all six
papers again and there were like we
forced her into it it was thinking on
you know into themselves he we forced
her to do this and she told us that she
is not made for this she can’t study and
this and that and all that poor child
has failed and what is she going to tell
everybody in what are we gonna tell the
society actually who cares about that
but yeah they did that man told them
there’s another this put up there in the
college side for all the people who’ve
done who passed the first class they
were like is this man crazy I’m talking
about terribly failed and he’s talking
about first class she said okay fine
let’s let’s give it a shot you know what
my name was right there so I got a
degree with of first class
[Applause]
what I am trying to tell you here is
never underestimate yourself please
that’s the last thing you should do you
can be oblivion
to what’s happening around you but never
be in Oblivion
to what’s inside you here I would tell
you about the language disaster that I
made after marriage my house helper just
five days after marriage came and asked
me in her language huh something to do
with the sorry I didn’t understand what
she was saying I said yeah I got a kid
take it it’s fine it’s okay go and she
was probably asking me something else I
understood something else and pretty
woman walking down the street two days
ahead of this she comes in that sorry
home I’m like what is this she I thought
she was asking me whether she could take
the sari to iron she meant can I take
this sari away and you know what it
wasn’t my sari it was my mother-in-law
sorry
I didn’t know what to do when I mother
lost saw her in that sari she looked at
me she looked at her I just wanted to
hide behind the sofa trust me it did ndo
my kitchen disasters if I can recall one
my mother not told me we have some
guests coming over can you make some
cold coffee I said of course was then a
cold coffee just had coffee milk sugar
big deal I went to the kitchen to make
that I put so much of ice into it left
no space for the you know top of the jar
it flung so high there was cold coffee
in every part of the kitchen from the
ceiling to the floor and I didn’t know
what to tell her I made other two
glasses it does not end here with the
cold coffee I was on the visitors lap
when I serve them I really don’t know
what to do I said I don’t know why mom
told me choose a kitchen and choose
chooses degree this and that I wish I’d
never chosen that in my life really the
other day when I tried making pani puri
and when I was done with it
I realize it’s two stars so I should add
some water to it and I just left that
bowl for the water to fill in somebody
called me I went out of the kitchen
forgot all about it when I came back in
ten minutes
the bowl was to still clear because the
water was down the entire green water
was on the floor I was like it’s not my
cup of tea I really don’t think I should
go anywhere close to the kitchen you
know even before I could make sense of
marriage and pots and pans in the
kitchen my angel an angel was born when
I was 22 and my bundle of joy at 26 once
again my dreams my
passion shattered truly speaking but I’m
very thankful to God today that I put my
personal interest back in the burner to
let it roast when I chose family over my
passion I would tell you guys that if
you get a chance and if you can afford
it if your circumstances allow that
there is nothing more rewarding than
this in life well a small story comes
into my mind when I talk about my kids
just when my kids were little suddenly I
heard some kind of a noise from
somewhere I ran to the kitchen and do
you know what I see my children throwing
fruits at each other I was shocked I
said I’ve never seen or I have never
done something so funny why because my
daughter called her toddler brother a
mango just for that and he told me it’s
the worst thing anybody can call anybody
is a mango she does not know she’s a
strawberry and this just went on all the
damn fruits came out from the kitchen
from the fridge and it was all over the
place into each other I was shocked
can you imagine missing these little
pleasures in life if you don’t decide
something in the right way is what I am
trying to convey I am so happy today
that I put my passion on the side at
that time in my life
the turning page was a turning point in
my life he would really wonder what that
was
well I feel everybody sitting here in
this room today is empowered the only
thing what we need to do is bring it to
the surface voice it loud to the
universe
trust me it will all work right at the
right time I’m very sure about that
try it and you’ll know it her I was
looking after children I gave in those
many number of my years looking after
them because I was well aware of my
responsibilities then handing to
children’s at that point of time having
two children here comes another little
story we’re gathered all my guts again
to bake okay so I was just measuring my
ingredients
when my son entered the world of my
kitchen hang on don’t laugh huh this
time he turned the page I was doing
another recipe the page turned I mixed
two recipes together but wait have you
guys heard when two people get married
from absolutely different community
community or communities you know like
say an American and an Indian the
children born are beautiful that gave
birth to a fantastic brownie I never
looked back and I knew this is it this
is where I am going to be this is what I
am going to do and it was just a
fortunately it was an unfortunate
disaster but that’s when my bakery was
born soon after that even before I had
really put my hands into it a week later
my son went and told the teacher that
tomorrow
my mom plans to send brownies for the
entire class for what joy I don’t know
and he came home and he told me you know
what tomorrow have to take like 75
brownies to class the teachers asked for
it I was like but how does she know what
my bran Singh of course I told her and I
told that you are going to send it
tomorrow for all my friends I said are
you crazy
I mean 75 brownies who makes that at
6:30 6:30 in the evening is when he
comes and tells me that trust me guys I
was making those Downey’s till midnight
to send it with him the next morning it
was all worth it the teachers called me
congratulated me on the fantastic job I
had done thankfully and yeah and that’s
when I decided I am going to take this
up as my courier so you heard what I am
trying to tell you is if you are forced
into things in life it does not work
please voice her opinion around there
are too many struggles in life too many
but these elements are important to
bring out the best potential in you to
bring out the best in you the universe
will definitely throw so many atom bombs
on you that you will one day feel I am
completely not made for this but until
and unless somebody presses you down
where you till the tentative can’t
breathe you cannot spring up it’s not
possible I too faced many challenges
coming from an orthodox society working
outside the house was a complete tab
back in those days we all didn’t work
even from home to tell you the truth but
I decided to start something from the
house for me to convince my people at
home itself was a big struggle and
challenge for me leave alone the society
who did everything and anything to put
me down to pull me down they spoke so
much about me
so that I could lead this work saying
that Oh Shi
you know what is wrong with her she’s
not looking after her kids she has no
family values there’s that blah and they
just went on they wouldn’t stop they
wouldn’t stop even today I just smiled
at them and told God please bless them
they really need your blessings and
that’s how I went on that’s how I go on
even today and that is what I would tell
you people also everything does not have
to be revolutionary you don’t have to
rebel you don’t have to fight you can
smile your way around through sweet
things it works it really does and Here
I am today with my startup called brown
sugar and once again I was back to
school six years before this I joined
school again for my beakers degree so
but this time it was because of my
choice and this time I had to convince
people in the house that I want to study
can I go and I was back to Bombay
because I had to stay there for like a
couple of months till I could finish my
course and did a Baker’s degree with the
second ranking so it’s never too late in
life to go back to school to go back to
college to go back to what you want to
do all of you are still so very young
that you can try your hands at anything
and everything you want and then decide
there’s nothing like this is the best
and that’s the best what you think is
the best is actually the best Here I am
today
a proud beaker and a proud homemaker so
I conclude with this
and all the best to all of you in life [Applause]
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