Furniture maker, ‘wild meat man’ among IPED successes

Lalta Sahadeo

Furniture maker Mohan Jangbir is an unlikely success. About five years ago, he found himself with very little and with nowhere to turn. “I had $100 in my name,” he says. His wife died after ailing for some time and the medical expenses had exhausted his savings, forcing him to end a successful trucking business.

But after years of setbacks, what Jangbir did have was an idea—a ‘rum shop,’ which he thought would be the quickest he could earn. He is now among the success