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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
When Tarsem Mittal met Kanta Aggarwal, and they married in 1970, little did they know that they were about to write a remarkable story. But the seeds of their story were sown many, many years earlier, in 1926, when Mohanlal Aggarwal, Kanta’s grandfather, left India and travelled to Tanganyika in Africa in search of a fortune.
Tarsem and Kanta’s lives were stormy as trials and tribulations awaited them at every twist and turn their journey took. But, the couple weathered the storm, faced many adversities and emerged triumphant.
They believe it is Satguru Jagjit Singhji’s constant grace in their lives that has brought them so far.
From a single petrol station in the 70s, to hundreds, today, they also own rice and edible oil mills. They have steered their family business into a formidable transglobal energy, agriculture and logistics conglomerate spread across Africa, the Middle East and India - the Mount Meru Group.
This is their extraordinary story.
Pankaja Srinivasan
Pankaja Srinivasan is a journalist. She began her writing career in Mumbai in 1985 and has worked and written for several National dailies and magazines in the country including Eve's Weekly, The Indian Express, Newstime, India Today and The Hindu from where she retired in 2020. She continues to write for The Hindu and was a consulting editor for Gaon Connection, a rural media platform for three years. Pankaja was commissioned to write the Biography of Tarsem and Kanta Mittal in April 2022 for which she travelled to Dubai and East Africa (Rwanda and Tanzania) to meet the Mittal family members and learn about their lives first hand.
