Yash Birla: A scion’s 20-year fitness journey

by Vikram Sharma | Oct 17, 2022

(October 17, 2022) As a student at the University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill, a young Yashovardhan Birla set out one day to explore the gymnasium. Unlike his peers, the then 23-year-old was a teetotaller and definitely didn’t enjoy heading down to the bar every...

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