Ramdulal Dey
This Bengali Ramdulal Dey was one of the most successful businessmen of independent India.
Ramdulal, a fatherless boy, came to his uncle's house in his childhood. Grandmother begs from house to house and grandmother cooks at Lake's house.
At the end of the day, Grandma would return home and boil the rice made by her grandfather. So it feels like nectar. Thus began his life, in his youth he became known as the Rothschild of Bengal (a top rich Englishman).
Ramdulal Dey of the nineteenth century accomplished this impossible task by combining these four qualities of determination, honesty, devotion and humility.
He did not get any opportunity to study. Could not write English letters. But self-taught Ramdulal had no difficulty in speaking or hearing English. So his company's business spread all over the world including China, Japan, England, America. Bengalis and Indians have forgotten him today but America has not forgotten him. The ‘Ramdulal Society’ there is proof of that.
How could Ramdulal Dey make such a groundbreaking change in his life? He is like a wonderful fairy tale. No less thrilling than an English thriller in that corner.
Ramdulal's grandmother used to cook at his house. Madan Mahen Dutt is a medium sized businessman from Kolkata. His company used to make a lot of money by buying and selling shiploads of goods that came to the port of Calcutta. Ramdulal used to live in this Madanmahan Dutt's outhouse with his cook grandmother.
The rich man's sheltered boy. There is no question of sending him to school with expenses. After Didima went out to work, the boy Ramdulal used to walk to the school in the neighborhood. He would sit quietly outside the attic, on the side of the road. The students used to write on banana leaves with a twig pen. Then he would throw away the banana leaves written during the holidays. Ramdulal used to collect them carefully. He used to practice turning over the obscure writings on his own. Then he would wash the leaves in water and rewrite them with his own hand. He would match it with other writings.
This is how the knowledge of letters went. Apart from the rich boy, he also learned to read Bengali by looking at abandoned books. Madanmahan Dutt, the owner of the house, got acquainted with his talent and was impressed by his humble and humble behavior and gave him a government job with a bill of five rupees. But the ambition of Ramdulal's mind, which was raised as a beggar, could not be stopped by the five rupees (now about 6000 rupees). One day Ramdulal, without the permission of his lord, spent 14,000 rupees and called for a submarine auction. Within a few hours, all the goods of that ship were sold for one lakh and fourteen thousand. Ramdulal could have silently embezzled this one lakh rupees of profit. But he did not. He politely handed over the money to his boss.
Madan Mahen Dutt paid homage to this belief. He asked Ramdulal to run his own independent business with that one lakh rupees (now 14,000,000,000 - one crore forty lakhs). Ramdulal did not have to look back after that start. He has earned crores of rupees in his life. But begging himself. He did not forget about his cherished childhood even once. So all his life he has lived a simple and unpretentious life and has done charity meditation with both hands. He knew what the pain of poverty was. He knew the pain of starvation.
So he used to give rice, pulses and market expenses to four hundred poor neighbors every month. Every day Laik used to come to his office in groups to pray for help. Seventy rupees was allocated daily for them. He was the first to introduce pension system after retirement of employees. In addition, three doctors were appointed. They treated the employees from door to door and provided them with food and medicine.
Huge guest house where one thousand guests irrespective of caste, religion and caste get to eat at Petpur every day. Even at the time of his death, Ramdulal set aside two lakh rupees for poor hospitality. Probably the only motive behind Ramdulal's life struggle was to help the poor. By giving jobs to thousands of unemployed people and providing food to millions of poor people, he made life very successful and prosperous. So his struggle and success is legendary today.
To accomplish great things we must dream, visualize, plan, believe and act.
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