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Impressions
WHAT THEY SAID...
Different people respond differently to Pratap Bhogilal. Their understanding of the man and the businessman in him differed, but those who have known him closely over a period of time have one thing to say about him: that whatever he has done has been in pursuit of what he believed in and stood for. And if he didn't agree with a certain point of view, he would always agree to disagree without stretching the argument. He believed in harmony.
Here, some prominent individuals from different walks of life, who were associated with him over decades as friends, colleagues, associates or subordinates at different stages in his career spanning more than seven decades, share their impressions of and experiences with Pratap Bhogilal....some professional, some personal...
Mr. Ramesh Bajaj Ramesh Bajaj is a Director on the Board of Batliboi Impex. **Almost every morning something about the Bhogilal family crops up in Ramesh's conversations with his mother. So much so that I feel as if I were there when what they are discussing happened, although it was much before my marriage to Ramesh," says Ramesh Bajaj's wife Mala.
Ramesh recalls,"Once Pratapbhai had come to the combing section where I was training. The noise of the machine next to where we were standing was so loud that we had to literally shout to be heard. At one point he paused and said something to the supervisor, Ashok. Later Ashok told me that Pratapbhai had conveyed to him that the machine we were standing
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice - Martin Luther King Jr.
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