The first ever Vegetable Oil mill of India

Image contributed by Vijaya Shenoy, Bengaluru The Hindustan Oil Mills – Staff Photograph. The mill was the first ever Vegetable Oil company of India.

The Professor who founded the Surat University

“My Grandfather was a very progressive man. Though he married my grandmother very young, 17 or 18 I think, he decided not to have children until she was in her 20s. He understood that she was too young to have kids so early. He was a Chemistry professor in Surat. After being trained in Manchester, […]