MDH owner Dharampal Gulati passes away at 97
Dharampal Gulati, the owner of MDH Masala, passed away on Thursday morning. He was 97.
New Delhi: Dharampal Gulati, the owner of MDH Masala, passed away on Thursday morning. He was 97.
According to reports, Gulati was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Delhi for the last three weeks and suffered a cardiac arrest on Thursday morning. He breathed his last at 5:30 am today.
Fondly called 'dadaji' and 'Mahashayji', Dharampal Gulati was born in 1923 in Sialkot, Pakistan. A school dropout, Dharampal Gulati joined his father's spice business in the early days.
After partition in 1947, he moved to India and stayed at a refugee camp in Amritsar. He then moved to Delhi and opened a store in Delhi's Karol Bagh and officially established the company in 1959.
Back in 2019, the government honoured him with Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award in the country.