By Samuel Kutty (Senior Editor of the Observer) and Sandhya Rao Mehta (Associate Professor of SQU) Khimji Ramdas (KR) is one of the most prominent Indian-origin business groups in Oman. A historic voyage in 1870 from the deserts of Kutch, India to the Port of Sur in Oman built a 150-year-old legacy that is now being carried forward into its sixth.