Industrialist Anand Mahindra, who uses social media extensively to shares creative, inspirational and motivational thoughts has once again taken to the microblogging site Twitter to share an inspiring story of Bhavesh Bhatia, a visually impaired entrepreneur. Bhatia, the founder of a candle company has provided work to over 9000 visually impaired employees in the past 28 years.
Mahindra in his post wrote that he was embarrassed about not knowing the visually impaired entrepreneur until he came across a video shared about Bhatia by a business coach Rajiv Talreja.
Resharing the video on Twitter the business tycoon wrote, “‘Toh kya Hua ki tum duniya nahin dekh sakte. Kuch aisa karo ki duniya tumhe dekhe. (So what if you cannot see the world? Do something so that the world sees you.)’ This has to be one of the most inspiring messages I have ever encountered. I’m embarrassed that I hadn’t heard about Bhavesh until this clip dropped into my inbox. His start-up has the power to motivate entrepreneurship more powerfully than a zillion unicorns… Keep Rising, Bhavesh!”
Since being shared, the clip has amassed close to a whopping 5 lakh views and 4,253 likes. It has also garnered tons of comments for the users.
"Visited his place 2 yrs back. Very empowering, kind person. Still have that Toran of artificial flowers at my entrance door that i bought from there," commented one user on the post.
"Highly motivating He not only overcome his limitations and is providing employment to visually impaired people and doing a great service to them," wrote another user.
"He has shown the path of living with dignity for people associated with him No doubt an inspiring personality," commented a third.
"Salute to him n God for making impossible things possible by man's ATMAVISWASH."