business – They say good things come only if you work towards it. To enjoy the fruit, you must sow enough in the roots.
With the policy change in 1986, my fate changed as well. My first business started picking up pace and I managed
to raise the first 4 crores through public offering of shares. I wanted to buy second-hand equipment to expand my
cable business and decided to try my luck once again. With this, a new dream was born, and I was off to my next
destination where dreams are made – America. At the age of 24, with my tooti-footi English, a suitcase
filled with ghar ka khana, and a dear friend from Bihar, Ajay Anand, I took off to chase my dream. To top it all, I had no
idea where I was going to stay! I just knew that if I didn’t take this risk now, I would be left wondering what if…
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When we landed at JFK Airport, I looked outside my window, and saw snow for the very first time! It was as
white as fresh milk. We were told to be careful of the pickpockets in New York City, so we stitched our only
money, 500 dollars, to the insides of our coats. As fate may have it, the passenger sitting next to me on
the flight, called Mr Kotawala, knew my grandfather in Rajasthan. When he found out that we didn’t have a place
to stay, he offered his home. He even gave us some warm clothes. We were extremely grateful, and as a gesture, we
started to help him around the house. We would entertain guests and drop his children off to school, tennis, and
other classes.
On the side, I would make forty to fifty calls every day in my broken English to find out where I could find
second-hand machinery at the cheapest rates. I had heard of America as the land of opportunities, where you can
achieve anything you want, and I was here to make it happen…
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