Do you know who the man is in the photo below?
By his appearance, you must be thinking that he might be a boy from lower middle class family, working in a bakery to earn money and support his family.
But no, that's not the truth.
He is Dhravya Dholakia
son of a billionaire Savji Dholakia.
Surat diamond magnate Savji Dholakia caught the world’s attention two years ago when he rewarded 1200 employees with apartments and cars as Diwali bonus.
For teaching his son how challenging life is, he decided to ask his son Dhravya Dholakia to go to an unfamiliar place and earn livelihood through odd work.
Dhravya Dholakia(21) who is studying Business management in US, came to India on summer holidays to enjoy with family.
Dhravya Dholakia accepted his father's challenge and left for Kochi with Rs 7000, a pair of clothes and nothing else.
Condition of his challenge
- First Dharvya needed to find some work but wherever he joins, he should not stay there for more than a week.
- He should not use his father’s identity
- He should not use those Rs 7000 until an emergency.
Dhravya accepted the challenge and went to Kochi where Hindi would not help him.
Difficulties he faced
For 5 days, Dhravya did not have any proper place to stay nor did he have any job. He was rejected from 60 places, he lied that he was from a very poor family and wanted to earn money to help his family. At last he got a job in a bakery. He kept switching jobs. Do you know how much he earned? He earned Rs 4000.
Dhravya Dholakia said
I never worried about money and here I was struggling to get a one time meal worth Rs 40 and I needed another Rs 250 per day to stay in a lodge.
What do you think? Isn't that great? Isn't it a good lesson for life?
Every father (whether from rich or middle class family) should do this experiment with his son/daughter to teach them true values of life.
