The year was 1942 and a summer night in the village of Savarkundla, Gujarat when the Parekh household was preparing to go to bed. Suddenly the stillness was shattered by an authoritative knock. It was the police. They were looking again for Jayantibhai, the rebellious son of the house. The boy was being hunted down for his vigorous partic... ipation in the Quit India Movement. This time old Vachhraj, Jayantibhai’s father, was fed up. So that night when the boy sneaked home, he was given a sound thrashing and unceremoniously packed off to Mumbai.
Alone in the swarming metropolis, Jayantibhai found employment as a sales boy in a saree shop called Kala Niketan. Those initial nights were spent on the footpath. Dreaming of owning an enterprise that would have people from all over the world (including the British), flocking for his war+ More
