Dharampal Gulati, the owner of MDH Masala, passed away on Thursday morning. He was 98. According to reports, Gulati was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Delhi for the last three weeks. He suffered a cardiac arrest on Thursday morning.

Fondly called 'Mahashayji', Gulati was born in Pakistan’s Sialkot in 1923. A school dropout, Gulati joined his father's spice business in Sialkot and, after partition, moved to India where he opened a shop in Delhi’s Karol Bagh.