The Last Journey of Rev. Smt. Chhabi Roy, Mother of Saharasri Subrata Roy Sahara

The last rites of Reverend Smt. Chhabi Roy, mother of Saharasri Subrata Roy Sahara, has been performed yesterday dated 7th May 2016, in Baikunth Dham, Lucknow.
The last journey of Reverend Smt. Chhabi Roy has been attended by more than 50,000 people, including the family members of Sahara India Pariwar and the well wishers, including Shri Akhilesh Yadav - Hon'ble Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh, Shri Shivpal Singh Yadav - Cabinet Minister, Uttar Pradesh, Shri Amitabh Bachchan, Shri Abhishek Bachchan, Shri Raj Babbar and his wife Smt. Nadira Babbar, Yoga guru Shri Bikram Choudhury, hockey Olympian Shri Dhanraj Pillai and many more. Shri Amitabh Bachchan and Saharsri Subrata Toy Sahara spent a considerable amount of time together in Sahara Shaher at Gomti Nagar, Lucknow.
At 4:30 PM, the funeral procession started for Baikuntha Dham. The open truck carrying Rev. Smt. Chhabi Roy was swarmed by the family members of Sahara India Pariwar. Wading through the crowd, Hon'ble Chief Minister of UP, Shri Akhilesh Yadav stopped near the gates to offer floral tributes. The procession turned into padyatra to reach its destination st 5:45 PM. Moments before sunset, Saharasri performed the mukhagnee ritual.

Subrata Roy’s success at being positive

When it comes to naming multi-faceted personalities, there are many who would say that Subrata Roy is a name that pops up in their mind almost instantly. It’s an unconventional choice but it is also a choice with merits because Subrata Roy is a man that has built a multi-billion dollar empire through sheer hard work, resilience and dedication. Along the way (and more importantly), Subrata Roy has built a loyal workforce/family that looks upon him with the utmost respect.

Life as we know, is not always a bed of roses and we all have problems to deal with and proverbial mountains to climb. Most of us in that phase of our lives tend to divert our energies into something negative.  Some of has however choose to channel our energies into something positive and Subrata Roy has done exactly that by writing a series of books from his present ‘lodging’, the first of which is called ‘Life Mantras’.

‘Life Mantras’ consists of Subrata Roy’s earnest musings on the important qualities and things in life. Some of these qualities and things are things like balance, love, respect, the value of time and money. Time and money have been explained in detail by Mr Subrata Roy who seems to hold both of them in equal and high regard. He is after all bound to have some things to say about what it takes to be successful in life in almost all areas. That is truly the crux of this beautiful book – attaining success in not just one but all the important spheres.


One of the main things that Mr Subrata talks about in this book is respect. He goes into detail about respect for specific things like time and money along with love and family. And he also has tips for maintaining a beautiful balance among all of those things. So the book is not only helpful in attaining success in the professional sphere but it also has wisdom that deals with leading a successful personal life as well. ‘Life Mantras’ is very complete and well-rounded sort of guide in life. 

A Positive Influencer in My Life

Not because she was my mother but all the human being who knew her will definitely say that she had tons and tons of affection for others which is not commonly seen.

It is her influence that we brothers and sisters understood the world with absolutely positive mind.

It is her teaching that ingrained in me to always remain positive minded for others and in all circumstances be positive yourself.

She used to always say that learn and practice to see positive aspect of all human being.

I never feel tension and it is my mother's teaching and influence.

Every day her phone calls were on an average used to be 40-50.

Her contact circle was huge.  She knew distressed people amongst relatives, amongst Sahara India Pariwar people (who she used to meet) and she will make it a point to help those distressed people.

On her command we used to help such relatives whom we never knew.

I enjoy in giving others.  She cultivated this wonderful and very enjoyable characteristic that giving is in my hand and expectation of getting depends on others.  So she taught to adopt the giving characteristics since that is in our hand.

She was most affectionate mother, teacher, philosopher etc.etc. but she was very difficult in the matter of girl friend.  That fundamentalism was there that you can be friend or touch any girl who you shall marry.

 But she was a mother beyond definition and I pray God that everybody get mother like her then I can confidently say that every sons and daughter will grow most positive minded with gratitude character and the strong desire to help others.  What a wonderful world it will be.



                      From the pen of ‘Saharasri’ Subrata Roy Sahara


Sahara chief Subrata Roy’s mother passes away

With a deep pain and anguish, We are to inform that mother of 'Saharasri' Subrata Roy Sahara and the guiding light of our Sahara India Pariwar, Rev. Smt. Chhabi Roy, departed for her heavenly abode today i.e. 6th May,  2016 at 1:34 a.m. in the night. Smt Chhabi Roy wife of Late Shri Sudhir Chandra Roy was 95 year old. She was born on 15th of January in Araria district of Bihar. She has been critically ailing with for last more than 2 years and was at a makeshift hospital at Sahara Shaher, Lucknow. 


Sahara India Pariwar

Statement from Sahara's lawyer - Mr. Gautam Awasthi

Pertaining to the today’s hearing of Sahara SEBI case there are few points on which we would like to request you to kindly clarify to your esteemed readers/audience
1.             Hon'ble Supreme Court has directed to prepare and submit a plan of the sale of 86 properties of Sahara of which title deeds are already submitted by Sahara. We would also like to clarify that order is not on the other properties of Sahara and neither these 86 properties includes the foreign properties of Sahara nor Aamby Valley City nor Sahara Star hotel.

2.             Hon’ble Supreme Court directed SEBI that in process of selling properties it has to take inputs and consultation with Sahara.

3.             Meanwhile, today, Sahara has completed the payment of Rs. 5,000 Cr cash component and only Rs. 5,000 Cr bank guarantee component is left. Senior counsel of Sahara, Mr. Kapil Sibal has submitted that since the worth of Sahara’s 86 properties whose original documents are with SEBI for long, is of worth of more than Rs. 40,000 crores and is more than Rs. 5,000 crores of the required Bank Guarantee. The SEBI to get the properties valued and if the admitted valuation is more than Rs. 5000 crore and was contended by Sahara that it should be treated as security and Mr. Subrata Roy Sahara and two Sahara directors be released. To this Hon’ble Court has directed SEBI to work on this proposition

Gautam Awasthi, Advocate

Counsel for Sahara

Statement from Sahara's lawyer - Mr. Gautam Awasthi

Pertaining to the today’s hearing of Sahara SEBI case there are few points on which we would like to request you to kindly clarify to your esteemed readers/audience
1.             Hon'ble Supreme Court has directed to prepare and submit a plan of the sale of 86 properties of Sahara of which title deeds are already submitted by Sahara. We would also like to clarify that order is not on the other properties of Sahara and neither these 86 properties includes the foreign properties of Sahara nor Aamby Valley City nor Sahara Star hotel.

2.             Hon’ble Supreme Court directed SEBI that in process of selling properties it has to take inputs and consultation with Sahara.

3.             Meanwhile, today, Sahara has completed the payment of Rs. 5,000 Cr cash component and only Rs. 5,000 Cr bank guarantee component is left. Senior counsel of Sahara, Mr. Kapil Sibal has submitted that since the worth of Sahara’s 86 properties whose original documents are with SEBI for long, is of worth of more than Rs. 40,000 crores and is more than Rs. 5,000 crores of the required Bank Guarantee. The SEBI to get the properties valued and if the admitted valuation is more than Rs. 5000 crore and was contended by Sahara that it should be treated as security and Mr. Subrata Roy Sahara and two Sahara directors be released. To this Hon’ble Court has directed SEBI to work on this proposition

Gautam Awasthi, Advocate

Counsel for Sahara

Saharasri Subrata Roy Sahara’s book – ‘Life Mantras’ remains in top 5 for the last 4 weeks in the bestseller chart of Nielsen

Lucknow, March 21, 2016: ‘Life Mantras’ – An exhaustive and thought provoking treatise by Shri Subrata Roy Sahara, Managing Worker & Chairman, Sahara India Pariwar, on his life-time experiences, observations as well as his insights on the day-to-day issues of people, has been in the top 5 in the bestseller chart of Neilsen for 4 consecutive weeks. According to Nielsen, bestseller list, last week, ‘Life Mantras’ topped the chart by ranking number one and has become bestseller in the non-fiction category of Nielsen BookScan. The book ‘Life Mantras’ is published by Rupa Publications.
The Nielsen BookScan service, which happens to be the world’s largest continuous book sales tracking service operating in India, the UK, Ireland, Australia, US, South Africa, New Zealand, Italy, Brazil and Spain, collects total transaction data at the point of sale directly from the tills and dispatch systems of all major book retailers. Nielsen collects data from online and offline booksellers including Bookadda, Crosswords, Connexion, DC Books, Flipkart, Indiatimes, Infibeam, Landmark, Landmarketail, Capital Book Depot, Rediff, Odyssey, Pageturners, TV18 Homeshopping, WH Smith India, ebay, Mahindra Retail, Relaince Timeout, Snapdeal, etc.
Within a month of its launch, the book - ‘Life Mantras’ has walked upright in the chart to acquire the status of a Bestseller. In his book, the author, Shri Subrata Roy Sahara, has elaborately detailed out the various psychological and emotional aspects of life vis-à-vis the basic instincts inherent in all human beings so as to bring forth the true beauty of the multi-dimensional human life.
The book ‘Life Mantras’ is the first among the ‘Thoughts from Tihar’ trilogy series and is available at all leading book stores across India as well as abroad. It is also available at all leading online portals and even in the form of an e-book. The other forthcoming books of the aforesaid trilogy series are 'Think with Me - How to make our country ideal’ and 'Reflections from Tihar - A book on Tihar Jail’. These other two books of the trilogy series will be released soon.

For further information please contact:
Ghulam Zeeshan
Corporate Communications
Sahara India Pariwar
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