Api Pipe

Listing ID #3454177

The year was 1946. The place: A small village in North India called Nalwa. The occasion: Bhavi Chand Jindal, the second oldest son of Netramji and Chandrawali Devi Jindal, was preparing to go east, following the astute advice given to him by his father. Accompanied by his brother Devi Sahay, the Jindals had their eyes set on Calcutta, and Tinsukhia in Assam, which offered more prospects for advancement compared to the simple rural environment of Nalwa.
It was a year before Independence, and the brothers were to commence work as trainees in the wholesale cloth trade as well as in retail textile merchandising. They had family connections there and Bhavi Chand Jindal remembers an added incentive, “Living conditions there were good then,” he says. “For Rs. 30 to 40 per month per head, you could live comfortably.” And so they moved. However, as it turned out, this first journey to the East was only a beginning.