IPOH: The grand dame of the Indian textile industry, VKK Ammani Ammal (pic), who died here at the age of 92, is remembered for helping to build up the family business and for being a loving “iron lady”.
The Perak-born great-grandmother had been the force behind her late husband, VK Kalyanasundram, from the time they had set up a sundry shop in Slim River in the 1940s to the opening their first textile business here in 1945.
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