Kishore Biyani had a very humble beginning. He was born on August 9, 1961. His grandfather late Bansi Lal
Biyani first came to Bombay in the year 1935 from an ordinary village of Rajasthan. His grandfather started his
first business by setting a shop in Vithawadi, selling dhotis and sarees. The year, in which Kishore Biyani was
born, his family started their second business that dealt with synthetic furnishing. Kishore Biyani lived in a joint
family with his grandparents, parents, five uncles and aunts and twelve siblings.
From his childhood days Kishore Biyani was different from others and it was very difficult to make him do
something of which he was not totally convinced. He considered himself to be a very rational person and would
not accept anything if it did not have logic. After school he joined HR College in Mumbai. He considered his
college days as a learning phase in his life, in which he came to know about human dynamics and understood the
real world as such.
In his college days, he had organized the `disco dandiya', which had now become very popular in Mumbai, along
with some of his college friends, in Jeevan Vihar (housing compound of Kishore Biyani), South Mumbai. They had
replicated the dandiya festival that used to take place in Juhu in a bigger way making the traditional festival a
disco-like event. The event was a major success and it boosted Kishore Biyani's confidence in his ideas and
abilities.
It was also in his college days that he had made his first profit. During this time he had seen some of his friends
wearing trousers made out of `stonewash' fabric which seemed fashionable because of its uniqueness. He had
then purchased two hundred meters of the cloth and had sold within six months six lakhs worth of the fabric.
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