Ahmedabad, 28 December 2011

While traveling on Saurashtra coast, you get a chance to visit Shri Krishna’s Dwarikadheesh mandir at his former capital town of Dwarka. Drive further south and you reach Porbandar, the place where Mahatma Gandhi was born. Drive further south and your destination by default as a tourist would be Lord Shiva’s place, the first jyotirlinga at Shri Somnath mahadev mandir, but wait. Now there’s another newer place to visit on the way. It is Chorwad, where India’s entrepreneurship icon late Shri Dhirubhai Ambani took birth and spent his childhood.

In Chorwad, Shri Dhirubhai Ambani memorial was opened today by Bhagawat kathakar Shri Rameshbhai Oza in presence of entire Ambani family led by smt Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani. Ambani family is religious, and presently there’s Kamurta(inauspicious) period going on, but to mark late Shri Dhirubhai Ambani’s 80th birth anniversary the memorial was opened today. The memorial complex will be opened for public however on 16 January when Kamurta period ends.

The new memorial has three sections; a pictorial gallery, the old residence of Dhirubhai Ambani and an auditorium.

In picture gallery, late Shri Ambani’s entire life has been presented through various photographs. In auditorium, a film on Shri Dhirubhai will be screened while in old residence part, an old well, old trees and Dhirubhai’s old possessions are kept. The memorial is standing over 1 acre land. Originally Shri Dhirubhai Ambani’s house was not this big, but once Kokilaben decided to set up a memorial, more land in adjacent to Dhirubhai Ambani’s old house was purchased. The house has been formally named as ‘Dhirubhai no delo’.