Anil Ambani On The Early Years

“Do you know where Kabutarkhana is? Do you know where Bhuleshwar is?”That’s where Maganlal Dresswalla is. That’s where the doodhwallas are. We used to stay in a place called Jai Hind Estate on the fifth floor. It’s a big chawl with 500 families staying in it. It was cheap. What was it? It was a one-bedroom house. My dad, my mother, my grandmother, my uncle, my brother and myself lived in one room.We used to play in the chawl. There used to be this big corridor running alongside twenty pigeonhole type flats on one floor. We used to be there, looking at the activity in the street below. Why is it called Kabutarkhana? It’s a huge place where all the pigeons descend and people feed them chana. Next door there’s a temple. So everybody goes into the temple, prays, comes out and throws chana to the pigeons.There’s a milk market in a locality called Panjrapole. The embroidery business is right there. Oh, there’s a lot of hustle and bustle in Kabutarkhana.” Read more of this post