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CHANDRASHEKHAR MANAY
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          to continue our family tradition to serve our       experienced and truly make the best
          customers honestly and with utmost care for         teachers in the world! Please say some
          their well-being.                                   inspiring words of wisdom for the future
                                                              generation/or for our readers.
             TIO: The life you have lived is sure to be
          full of many good and bad stories. Please              CM: Today’s business modules in retail
          share an interesting anecdote that you fondly       would be very different from whatever I learnt
          remember till date.                                 during my hay days. But I still believe that
                                                              human values and virtues are always a back
             CM: At this stage in life memories or            bone in any progressive business. I reiterate
          anecdotes to quote would be limited,                once again that honesty, ethical practice,
          understandingly because of age. A few episodes      personalised service and respecting customers
          which have left an imprint in my tenure at          irrespective of their stature financially or
          S R Gopal Rao are: Attending to the eminent         socially should be the pillars of success.
          scientist Sir C.V. Raman who would come to our
          store and enquire if the pebbles (spectacles)          TIO: Lastly, how would you like to be
          were ready. Secondly, the other eminent             remembered?
          personality was late Sri Kengal Hanumantaiah,
          the illustrious Chief Minister of the erstwhile        CM: Being in the industry for over six
          state of Mysore, who built the Vidhana Soudha       decades, it gives me immense pleasure
          – he always insisted that I should personally       and joy when my old patients voice their
          attend to him and dispense his glasses.             appreciation about the quality of spectacles
                                                              and the accuracy of the prescription
             TIO: We salute our elders who are far more       dispensed by me to them.


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