New Delhi: It doesn’t matter from which generation you belong to because the one thing that is synonymous with all of us is watching ‘Asli Masaale Sach Sach’ ads featuring ‘MDH uncle.’ Mahashay Dharampal Gulati, famously known as the ‘MDH uncle’, ‘Dadaji’, ‘Masala King’, or ‘King of Spices’ is the owner and CEO of MDH (Mahshian Di Hatti).
Most fondly known as ‘Mahashay’, Gulati was born in 1919 in Pakistan’s Sialkot, where his father had set up a small shop. However, after partition in 1947, the family moved to Delhi in India. In 1953, Gulati rented a shop in Chandni Chowk, named it Mahashiyan Di Hatti (MDH), and started selling spices.
The company was officially established in 1959 when Gulati bought land in Kirti Nagar and set up a manufacturing unit. Currently, MDH Spices, which reportedly manufactures nearly 50 different varieties of spices, has 15 factories across the country and sells its products across the globe, as per reports. Gulati became highest-paid FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) CEO in India in 2017.
He took last breath today morning at age of 98.
