in Chemistry at age 21 and worked as a lab technician, first in the New Cotton Mills, Ahmedabad, of the Lalbhai group and then at the Geology and Mining Department of the state Government.
In 1952, he started Atul Limited (literally, 'incomparable'), India’s first modern dyestuff manufacturer, in collaboration with American Cyanamid Company.
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He commissioned world-renowned architects such as Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, B. V. Doshi and Charles Correa to design some of these institutes and bring modern architecture in Ahmedabad.