"Amma Is the Greatest Entrepreneur"

Biocon Founder and CMD Visits Amrita

25 August 2006, Amritapuri

Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw—the founder, chairman and managing director of Biocon, India's leading biotechnology company—recently took a tour of AIMS and Amrita University's Centre for Biotechnology, as well as met with Amma. Here are some of her comments: "I could not wait to meet the founder of this all, after seeing AIMS. This is the first of many visits for me!" "Amma is a fountain of ideas! She is the source of your strength and innovation! Amma has created so much wealth out of nothing!"

"I am so inspired and so touched that the institutions Amma has built are so much about innovation and research."

"I really did not expect to find such excellent research here in India. Usually all the top talent goes abroad, but somehow Amma has been able to bring them back to India! Now we can give opportunities for our talents in our own country."

"I want to try and do something to make this country better. We all want to be able to be proud of our nation. I feel so inspired by all Amma's communal work and I also want to do more. And for that, I ask for Amma's blessing."

Talking to the students of Amrita University, Amritapuri Campus she said: "I just want to say that, if I could do it [succeed as an entrepreneur], surely you can too. India is now truly a land of opportunities, and it is up to you to transform these opportunities into success. But after these two days, I see that Amma is the greatest entrepreneur of us all. She is so full of ideas and unique visions that she makes research easy. The Amrita faculties are inspiring, and I want to see what I can do to support them. And for Amma's communal work—it is so impressive, I just want to participate!"

—Dass