Nonagenarian businessman Basant Chadha dies in India at age of 92
Basant Chadha. File photo
PESHAWAR: Basant Chadha, a migrant businessman from the provincial capital who died of natural causes in Jabalpur in India at the age of 92, always greatly missed the city of his birth, said Dr Ali Jan, a noted cultural activist and historian.
He is survived by a daughter Shobha Puri and son Anil Chadha.
Basant Chadha was born in Peshawar on October 18, 1928. His father Gulab Rai Chadha owned a store on the Arbab Road in Peshawar Cantonment. Known as “Gulab Rai & Sons” the shop carried on until 1948 before the family migrated to India after Partition.