AM Rasiklal is our shop on 26 NS Road, Calcutta. It was set up in 1935 in partnership with a Gujarati. During

the Japanese bombings in Calcutta in 1942, he expressed his desire to exit the partnership and migrate. Since the shop changed identity and ownership, we submitted an arzi to Syedna Taher Saifuddin Saheb with three alternative names. Huzurala asked us to retain the name of AM Rasiklal. We were surprised. The power of Huzurala’s foresight was revealed during the communal riots of 1947 when a number of shops on NS Road bearing Muslim names were looted. AM Rasiklal was overlooked!