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Manu Chandaria: From an illiterate penniless immigrant to business mogul

The Biography of Manu Chandaria "Success To Significance" on August 28, 2024. [Kanyiri Wahito Standard]

Manu and the Chandaria family have come a long way from when their patriarch, Premchand Popat Chandaria, set sail for Kenya in 1916.

Premchand was escaping the grinding poverty in his native Jamnagar, a town in the Saurashtra region in the Gujarat State on the west coast of India. With no more than the dried food in his small bag which he hoped would last him for the duration of the journey, he fixed his eyes and mind on the future.

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