{"id":329196,"date":"2020-12-03T05:43:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T05:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329196"},"modified":"2020-12-03T05:43:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T05:43:34","slug":"mdh-owner-dharampal-gulati-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mdh-owner-dharampal-gulati-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"MDH owner Dharampal Gulati passes away\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329197 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/dharampal-gulati.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/dharampal-gulati.jpg 437w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/dharampal-gulati-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/>Dharampal Gulati, the owner of the MDH Masala brand, passed away on Thursday. He was 97.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, Gulati was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Delhi for the last three weeks and suffered a cardiac arrest early this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2019, Gulati was conferred with the Padma Bhushan award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia paid tributes to Dharampal on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDharm Pal ji was very inspiring personality. He dedicated his life for the society. God bless his soul,\u201d Kejriwal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Manish Sisodia in a tweet said, \u201cIndia&#8217;s most inspiring entrepreneur, MDH owner Dharm Pal Mahashay passed away this morning. I have never met such an inspiring and lively soul. May his soul rest in peace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The owner of MDH was born in 1923 in Sialkot, Pakistan. He moved to India after Partition and opened a shop in Delhi\u2019s Karol Bagh and expanded his business from there.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dharampal Gulati, the owner of the MDH Masala brand, passed away on Thursday. He was 97. According to the reports, Gulati was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Delhi for the last three weeks and suffered a cardiac arrest early this morning. In 2019, Gulati was conferred with the Padma Bhushan award. Delhi Chief Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[13754,13753],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329198,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329196\/revisions\/329198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}