Hi Friends, I am writing a DP after a very long time as I am nowadays heavily tied up due to my work pressures.It’s very hectic for a lone person to handle everything, but in my case I never worry or fear about all these things. I have come a very long way and have worked and toiled very hard for achieving the prestigious status that I currently enjoy in my personal and business circle. Whatever I have achieved till now is due to the blessings of my parents and by the grace of God.

Once when I was just 16 years old, one day my father told me son, I think that the time has come for us to open our branch office at Ahmedabad and you will have to live there alone and continue your studies over there as well as handle our growing business, then he said are you ready my pathan? I had the same characteristics as “Pathans” from the beginning and my father knew it as he too was like that in his entire life and hence it was in my genes. I immediately replied “Yes Papa, I am ready without thinking twice and hence at the age of 16, I got ready to stay in a different unknown city.

After reaching Ahmedabad, I worked very hard. I used to attend the morning college and then I would attend my office, handle the business and return home at night and used to stay alone in our house. I stayed there for six years and during that period, life taught me many things. I learned how to live alone without being dependant and without any support from anyone. I used to eat outside everyday, but then it took toil on my health, so I decided to prepare food myself and learnt it from a Marwari servant. From thereon I used to eat food prepared by me.

After my marriage took place in 1990 in Mumbai, we sold our business of Ahmedabad on goodwill to another party and also sold our house and since then I am permanently residing here in the dream city Mumbai. My father passed away in 1997 and from that day onwards, I am in charge of his business. I am just a caretaker of it. He was the real architect who had laid down it’s foundation. I am just sitting on a ready made chair whose supporting legs were constructed by my father. Words and paragraphs are not enough to describe my father. His journey of life was a very important lesson that I have learnt by just observing and then implementing it in my life. Hard work, strong determination, fortitude, tremendous willpower, courage, honesty, wisdom, sincerity and the always undying attitude are some of the things that I have learned from my father and today I am very proud that I am reaping the rewards by following his laid down principles.

My father was born in porbandar, the karma bhoomi of the father of our nation Mahatma Gandhi. My father was a self-made man. We were not born rich. At the tender age of 15, my father lost his father. He was the eldest son amongst his other four brothers and one sister who were much younger than him and hence he had to sacrifice his studies and had to venture out to find a job for feeding his huge family. He got a job in a petrol pump at Rs-15/- per month, where he had to carry heavy weight drums on his shoulders and deliver it to nearby shops in the surrounding area. His mother used to cry when she would see her young aged son come back home from work, all covered with petrol and grease all over his body and clothes. His journey of rags to riches thereafter is just like an unbelievable fairytale which can not be described in short. I was informed about all this by my mother. She told me how my father used to toil hard and earn money but would never compromise on my and my brother’s necessities when we were young and immature. He would never spend more money on himself, but would always spend it on us. Today my elder brother is a very successful practicing chartered accountant and myself a successful businessman, which is only due to the strenuous hard work and vision of our parents.

The story of my mother’s struggles and sacrifices is also highly commendable which I will surely share sometime later.

I can never repay my father in any way. Even if I make shoes from my skin and offer him then also it will not be even a little bit sufficient. My father is always with me. It’s only the body that perishes but not the soul, not the memories, not the principles, not the teachings, not the love and hence he will always remain with me. His name will always be besides my name and that will remain forever even after I die till eternity and even today I never do anything without seeking my father’s and mother’s divine blessings. They are my real Gods. They are present in my every breath, in my every heart beat, in my ticking mind and in my every tiniest molecule. They will be always there inside me, even when I am turned into ashes and nobody, not even God can take away this privilege from me.It”s this son”s ever eternal right.

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