Prabhu was incensed and allegedly retorted, “I keep IPS officers in my pocket for 1000 Rs. Prabhu as per usual asked the policeman “ Aapka bhav kitna hai?” and the policeman told him that if Prabhu gave him 20 Lakhs,there won’t be any case against him. Prabhu Agarwal,the owner of Haldirams Kolkata, pays a gangster 2.5 Lakh Rupees to murder a tea vendor who is obstructing his real estate plans.The conspiracy is exposed and the police comes to arrest him. There’s one anecdote in the book which I found interesting: It was sometime in February 2017 that I read about Haldiram becoming. The author has a tendency towards hagiography which makes the book a tedious read.She is also not able to fully explain why Haldirams was so successful despite the intense competition. BHUJIA BARONS - The Untold Story of How Haldiram Built a 5000 Crore Empire by Pavitra Kumar (2016), Penguin Portfolio, p 256. The book traces the story of Haldiram and his three generations as they built an empire based on bhujia across 4 cities-Bikaner,Kolkata,Nagpur and Delhi. In the early twentieth century, young Ganga Bhishan Agarwal, aka Haldiram, gained a reputation for. I was reminded of this old joke when I picked up the book “Bhujia Barons-The untold story of how Haldiram built a 5,000 Crore Empire” Buy Bhujia Barons by Pavitra Kumar at Mighty Ape NZ. “Half the population of Bikaner seems to be involved in making bhujia and the other half in eating it”
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