‘My mother had donated bangles and jewelery during the war with China’, Anand Mahindra said – is it possible now? – Anand Mahindra Viral Post share 1962 memory Indian womens Gold holdings tutc

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Mahindra & Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra is active on social media. He keeps posting something interesting on his Twitter (now X) account, which quickly goes viral. Now the billionaire businessman has shared a new post, in which he has said a big thing about gold. Let us tell you that in today’s time gold and silver are the most discussed topics. While running at a high speed continuously, where it broke all the records, in the last three days it has slipped rapidly. Talking about Anand Mahindra’s social media post, he remembered the period of 1962, when there was war between India and China.

When women donated their jewelery
Chairman of Mahindra Group Anand Mahindra On Thursday, he shared a memory related to the Indo-China War of 1962, which is related to his personal childhood. Referring to it in a social media post, he told how the citizens at that time voluntarily donated the gold and jewelery they had to the National Defense Fund. He said that this is a great example of India’s collective confidence.

Big thing said about this post
Anand Mahindra actually shared his childhood memory after a social media post, in which it has been told that today Indian women have an estimated 24,000-25,000 tons of milk. Sleep Is present. This figure is one of the largest private holdings globally. Not only this, it is more than the gold reserves of big countries like America and Germany.

While sharing this in his ex-post, Mahindra Chairman called this data an impressive figure and along with this India-Shared a childhood memory related to China war. He wrote, ‘During the 1962 war with China, the Government of India created a National Defense Fund and appealed to citizens to donate gold and jewelery for defense efforts.’ He further wrote that according to today’s value, gold worth thousands of crores of rupees was collected for this fund at that time and Punjab alone had donated 252 kg of gold.

Anand Mahindra said- ‘Mother also gave her jewellery’
The memory that Anand Mahindra shared, at that time he was only 7 years old. He wrote, ‘I clearly remember standing with my mother on the Mumbai road, when government trucks were passing by. Megaphones were loudly appealing to citizens to donate their jewelery for the defense of the country. I can still imagine how mother was quietly collecting her few gold bangles and necklaces, putting them in a cloth bag and giving them to the volunteers on the truck.

Billionaire businessman asked, is it still possible?
Today, when gold prices have touched a new peak breaking all its records, can such voluntary generosity exist even at this price? Mahindra Chairman also mentioned this question in his post. He asked whether such voluntary actions of that scale, spirit and faith could take place even in today’s world?

It is noteworthy that according to the new bulletin of the Reserve Bank, India’s gold reserve will cross 880 metric tons in the first half of 2025-26, in which an increase of 0.2 metric tons has been recorded in the last week of September. The total value of gold held by the RBI as of September 26 was $95 billion, which shows its continuous increase even amid global uncertainties.

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