Businessman Dr. Manu Chandaria gives a talk to students and innovators at USIU University in Nairobi on June 22, 2023 [Boniface Okendo, Standard] Mahatma Gadhi taught Indians to eat simple meals and dress simply, as well as doing everything possible to be self-sufficient. He was frugal and so throughout his four years at the University of Bombay, Manu went to spin the thread for handlooms for an hour every single day He got the thread weaved together with his brothers and cousins garments which they wore until they left India for Kenya and the United States. He had three shirts,…
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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. A simple man, he had a modest…