There is a special place in Heaven reserved for parents who support their children’s dreams and give them the freedom to choose their own careers. Even by those standards, the decision taken by one of India’s leading industrialists, Kumar Mangalam Birla, (in pic) Chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, India’s third largest business house, is nothing short of exemplary.

Word has it that he has given his blessings to son and heir Aryaman’s decision to go in for a career in professional cricket.