Manu Chandaria seals 64 years of marital bliss with a kiss

Businessman Manu Chandaria and his wife Aruna kiss after exchanging vows at the Attorney General Chambers in Nairobi, yesterday. (Jenipher Wachie, Standard)

It is 10am, and an unlikely figure is just making his way into the Registrar of Marriages’ office in Nairobi. Whispers fill the air as other couples crane their necks to catch a glimpse of him.

“Is that Manu Chandaria?” one person asks. They are right, the 90-year-old industrialist has indeed come to Sheria House with his 85-year-old wife, Aruna, to register their marriage, after 64 years of living together as husband and wife.