A Tale Of Two Cities

Dolly Bhatter, 31, Founder, Brand N Buzz, a PR firm in Mumbai, talks about the importance of having a supporting family when it comes to being an entrepreneur, and finding quality time to spend with her son, Amay

- Sania Dhirwani

Dolly Tilani Bhatter’s tale of love, is one that has people crossing oceans to be with their one true love. For Dolly, it wasn’t only about crossing oceans, but about entering a whole new world when she and her husband decided to marry, not just across continents, but across communities, as well. Dolly grew up in New York and spent 15 years of her life there before moving to India at the age of 24, when she married Vijay, the love of her life. Vijay is the owner of India-Forums.com, one of the most popular Indian television portals and Dolly ventured into Public Relations when she opened her own agency.

Pregnancy Woes & Wows

Both Dolly and Vijay wanted to spend quality time with each other, travel the world and build their respective careers before they started planning for a baby. Dolly says, “Five years into the marriage, we felt we were now ready to take on the responsibility of another life, and decided to start a family.” But not everything is how you expect it to be. Dolly’s first pregnancy was terminated as the baby was diagnosed with CDH (Chronic Diaphramatic Hernia). Dolly says, “We were advised that it was best to not bring a life into this world, which would suffer and possibly pass away minutes after birth.” Post that, the couple were advised not to plan right away so they waited for some time.

Second time around, it was an unexpected pregnancy for the couple. “We found out on November 16, 2015 that I was pregnant. As I was spotting, none of us actually realised that I was pregnant. Joy knew no bounds after the doctor announced that I was expecting,” Dolly says, excitedly.