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Their father was a refugee in India. Now they’ve teamed up with the Trumps. (In Mississippi)
The Economic Times of India ^ | July 23, 2018 | Steve Eder and Ben Protess, The New York Times

Posted on 07/24/2018 5:04:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Dinesh Chawla has long run his family’s hotel business from a high-top table at a Hampton Inn on the edge of this out-of-the-way Mississippi Delta town. It used to be the kind of work that usually involved friends and neighbors.

But in the year since Chawla and his brother signed a hotel deal with President Donald Trump’s family business, he has been courted by strangers. Goldman Sachs dispatched a wealth manager in hopes of signing him as a client....

(Excerpt) Read more at economictimes.indiatimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: hotels; india; mississippi; trump

1 posted on 07/24/2018 5:04:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

From a fried chicken restaurant to owners of 17 hotels...amazing progress!


2 posted on 07/24/2018 5:14:47 PM PDT by entropy12 (1 Mil Daca is the shining object to hide 30 mil low quality LEGAL immigrants in last 25 years)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The man’s judgement is obviously seriously flawed. Why would anyone not 7’-4” tall sit at a high top by choice?


3 posted on 07/24/2018 5:16:23 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

Why would anyone not 7’-4” tall sit at a high top by choice?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

He has a 2nd amendment item holstered onto the underside of the table top?


4 posted on 07/24/2018 5:22:03 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: entropy12

In my last three years of working in the UAE/ME, I have talked with many of the “guest” workers there. Over 90% say they would love to be able to live and work in the USA and the main reason is “freedom”. No kneeling required. Anyhoo, just my observation.


5 posted on 07/24/2018 5:28:40 PM PDT by Shark24
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mississippi has many successful Indians.....doctors, pharmacists, scientists, & owners of many nice and well run hotels.

They work hard and value education. Priorities.


6 posted on 07/24/2018 5:43:32 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: entropy12

Only in America!


7 posted on 07/24/2018 5:49:48 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Candor7

You don’t need a high top for that. At least I don’t. ;)


8 posted on 07/24/2018 5:57:45 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

Agreed, unless its a scatter gun.


9 posted on 07/24/2018 5:58:50 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; V K Lee
Nice find, 2ndDiv!  PING.  The Trumps can smell a great entrepreneur deep in the Bayou from Trump Tower in New York.
10 posted on 07/24/2018 7:47:00 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It seems that every hotels I’ve been in over the last few years has been run by an Indian. What is it with Indians and hotels?


11 posted on 07/24/2018 10:55:12 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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It’s a pretty easy business to get into and run, especially on the low end and the family can live there so there’s no rent to pay.


12 posted on 07/24/2018 10:57:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good point. In most cases, I’ve seen young children playing behind the front desk.


13 posted on 07/24/2018 11:14:19 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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If you look (and ask) carefully you will find that most of these hotel owners are Gujaratis (from the nation of Gujarat which is on the west coast of India, north of Bombay)

These are and hve been for centuries, a trading community. Very close-knit with kids working in the family business, very hard working and good at business

And even more so most are owned by a sub-group/clan called the "Patels" which is also their surname

Their modus operandi is simple - work 12-16 hours at everything. Put friendly service and have family members help out.

This way they can earn mroe than anyone else in the business

14 posted on 07/24/2018 11:50:14 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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