King of spices' Mahashay Dharampal Gulati passes away at 98: Condolences pour in

Dharampal Gulati, the owner of MDH Masala, passed away on Thursday morning. He was 97. According to initial reports, Gulati was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Delhi for the last three weeks. He suffered cardiac arrest on Thursday morning. The nonagenarian breathed list last at 5:30 AM.

Fondly called 'dalaji' and 'Mahashayji', Dharampal Gulati was born in 1923 in Sialkot, Pakistan. A school drop out, Dharampal Gulati joined his father's spice business in early days.

After 1947 India-Pakistan partition, he moved to India where he stayed at refugee camp in Amritsar. After that he moved to Delhi’s Karol Bagh where he opened a store. He launched MDH Masala as a brand in 1959.

Mahashay Dharampal Gulati passes away: Condolences pour in 

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia was among the first to condole the death of the MDH owner.