sentences:  Birla was born on 14 November 1943 in Calcutta to industrialist Basant Kumar and Sarala Birla.His grandfather Ghanshyam Das Birla was an associate of Mahatma Gandhi and had built his fortune on aluminium prospecting and as the manufacturer of the Ambassador car.After attending St. Xavier's College, Calcutta, he earned a degree in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.