HOW I MADE MY FIRST MILLION…. Vijayan Pillai In 1976, when Vijayan Pillai landed in Mumbai, he had no clue about what job to pick up in the unknown city. The place he put up first was in Dharavi and later near Chembur, a periphery of Asia's largest slum. In a room, four bachelors including himself lived. He lived in the same room for 12 years. Before reaching Mumbai, he had tried his luck at NTPC's worksite at Ramagundam, in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh and later for a few months in Chennai, then named Madras. After falling sick of typhoid while living in Chennai, he returned to his village in Kollam district of Kerala. Later, he unsuccessfully looked for a job in other places. Then he tried his luck successfully in Mumbai through someone who agreed to take him to the ci...
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