•People who fled their homes overnight with only the clothes on their back were moulded by the hardships they faced to achieve extraordinary success.
•India – a culture that is thousands of years old but a nation that is only 70. She came of age post 1947, eager to make the most of her hard-won independence and grow to be at par with the most developed nations in the world. Her enthusiastic people, who had sacrificed much and fought hard to secure her independence, accepted this challenge with electric enthusiasm.
•Goals and plans went into motion with one mission: development. Everything that used to be imported now began to be manufactured locally – from butter (Amul) to cosmetics (Lakmé) to cycles.
•Decades later, we see the results. Industries that began life as startups are giants today. Lone visionaries pursuing impossible dreams are now inter-generational business families.
•Dina Nath and Seva Ram were not new to entrepreneurship. They had started with a small cycle repairing shop in Jhelum and turned it into a prosperous establishment that imported bicycles from London. When they fled for their lives from the new Pakistan with no significant belongings lest they attract looters, Dina Nath carried in his pocket a single receipt regarding an awaited shipment of cycles.
•Before Partition, Raunak Singh worked as a pipe salesman in Lahore and earned a comfortable living. But Partition changed all that. He and his family fled to India in penury and had to survive on as little as 1 paisa a day for their meals. He camped with 13 other refugees in a single room in Delhi’s Gole Market and found work at a spice shop to make ends meet. But this was not the life he could envision living.
•It was an immense risk for refugees to carry valuables on their person while fleeing as it meant higher chances of getting looted and killed. But the family had managed to make it this side of the border with a small stash of jewels, a small sense of security to anchor their lives in a foreign land. Left with no other choice, Raunaq sold the jewellery for Rs 8,000 and set off to start his first business.
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