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Avanti Birla talks about being her industrialist husband Yashovardhan's anchor through tragedy
"That was the most difficult time. It's painful to even think about it today," she says. In 1990, Yash lost his parents Ashokvardhan and Sunanda, and sister Sujata, to a plane crash in Bengaluru — an incident he recounts in chillingly clinical detail in his recently-released biography, On A Prayer.
But here's what you won't find in the book. A year later, when Yash and Avanti tied the knot, everyone looked to the new bride to help put an utterly devastated and broken man together again. And how she managed to do just that.
Avanti admits she really struggled with it.
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"I didn't know how to cope with the situation, how to offer Yash solace," she says. "We were both young and totally lost. It was traumatic for both of us." There was the added pressure of proving she could be