- The owner of the iconic spice brand MDH, ‘Mahashay’ Dharampal Gulati passed away at the age of 98 after suffering from a cardiac arrest.
- Dharampal Gulati was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in India, last year.
- From driving a ‘tonga’ to building a multi-crore spices empire in India, here’s a brief look at his success story.
‘Mahashay’ Dharampal Gulati, the face of the iconic spice brand MDH (Mahashian Di Hatti) and the mascot for Indian masala, passed away at the age of 98 on Thursday after suffering from a cardiac arrest. The nonagenarian who was fondly known as ‘dadaji’ and ‘Mahashay Ji’ breathed his last at 5:30 am.
One of the most successful businessmen of India, he was born in 1923 in Sialkot, Pakistan. Gulati moved to India during the partition and opened his shop in Delhi’s Karol Bagh to set up their family ‘spices’ business once again. He went on to build it into a multi-crore global empire
Dharampal Gulati was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in India, last year.
Here’s a brief look at his journey from a school dropout to building a multi-crore spices empire in India: