I was not my blood: Mother used to say, from which gutter did you pick it up; Husband said, you cannot be a mother like you... Journey from orphan to entrepreneur

When she was 13-14 years old, the mother started beating a lot. She started saying, I don't know why I brought it. From which gutter did you pick it up? Had it been a boy, it would have been a different matter. It was a mistake that it was adopted.

I don't know where I was born. Police told that when I met, it was not even a few months old, but a few days old. Was kept in the orphanage for two-three years. Then after adopting the mother brought her village to Bhiwandi in Maharashtra.

When Kalpana Vandana (Anandi) shares these things with us, her tongue gets stuck at times. She pauses for a while and then says, there were many phases between becoming a successful entrepreneur from an orphan, when I was determined to end myself.

But, today I am the owner of Toraa (Tora), an e-commerce platform that sells Kolhapuri sarees and other products. If everything goes well, its turnover will be in crores in 2-3 years, now I am a millionaire. In fact, it is a fight for its own existence.

Kalpana says, in my situation there are hundreds of women who are fighting for their existence. going through this phase. I have dozens of such women working with me. I want every woman to be independent.

Kalpana says, in my situation there are hundreds of women who are fighting for their existence. going through this phase. I have dozens of such women working with me. I want every woman to be independent.

Everyone starts from childhood, saying that Kalpana goes back to those days. She says, till the age of 13-14, everything was going well. Got a lot of mother's love. She was an Anganwadi teacher. The family was well known in the village.

There has never been such a problem that there is no food in the house. I was a little more fortunate than the rest of the kids in the village. The food and drink that was made when the guests came to the houses of others, he used to stay with me every day.

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But gradually the mother started growing a lot of expectations from me. This love started fading away. Innocence has come down. Actually, they wanted a boy. I started getting beaten up when I went outside to play.

Suddenly there were many changes in the behavior of the mother. She used to taunt. She used to say, why don't you die. Go away from home… you will never be happy.

Actually, I was not my blood.

So you left the house? Kalpana says, many things were going bad in the mother's personal life as well. They were about to get divorced. The court case was going on. She was taking out all her anger on me.

The financial condition of the house had also become very bad. Then after 10th I started working. She used to return home late. Maybe I looked a little beautiful, so the attitude of the people of the village also started changing. Whom I used to call brother, they started seeing them with filthy eyes.