Sunil Kant Munjal recounts his father and uncles' journey of building Hero

The Munjal brothers knew bicycles. They did not have any capital, but possessed the technical knowledge and skills to make their mark in the rapidly growing bicycle industry, he writes

The Making of Hero: Four Brothers, Two Wheels and a Revolution that Shaped India

Author: Sunil Kant Munjal

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: Rs 699

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At the age of twenty-four, my father got a second shot at life. He was standing on the roof of a friend’s home in Kamalia, when he came within a hair’s breadth from death. A communal riot had broken out, one of the many that marked the Partition of India. As he watched the bloodletting and acts of arson, to the accompaniment of screams and gunfire, a red-hot pain flared across his forehead. He clapped a hand over his brow and