In 1944 or 1945 a baby daughter was born. She was called Tarulata. When she was 6 months old she developed a digestive problem and passed away. Ba and Pappa were heartbroken. They went to stay with Pappa’s good friend Shantikaka in Thompsons Falls.

Shantikaka was a very close friend of Pappa. Whenever Pappa went to see him (he had a saw mill in Thompsons Falls) the two friends would stay up till late and chat and joke. Shantikaka was quite tight with money but very generous at the table, he always had guests at his house. Neither he nor his business partner Gordhanbhai had any children. One day Shantikaka, who was a financial wizard and quite wealthy, opened one of the cupboards in his house and showed Pappa the contents, stacks of bank notes. Shantikaka asked Pappa what he should do and Pappa replied, “Spend it!” otherwise when Shantikaka died, Pappa would burn the money with his remains. So Shantikaka retorted “Don’t burn the money. Just write a cheque and burn it!” On a more serious note, Pappa suggested that Shantikaka should learn how to do Samaik, which he did. Kaka was grateful to Pappa for suggesting it.

During the war there was a huge shortage of goods in E. Africa as even the seas were not safe from enemy attack. A passenger boat called “Tilawa” of the BI line had been blown up when crossing the Indian Ocean on its journey from Mombasa to India.

In 1944 Mansukhkaka went to India to get married. His father had passed away a long time back but Juttha Adda had asked Kaka to come to India to get married. Somehow he managed to find a cargo vessel to take him. Kaka came back in a dhow with Prabhakaki and Babukakas family. Dhows left from Porbandar and Jamnagar and were run by either Arabs or Katcchi Kharva. The journey took 25 days using sails only. This was a seasonal route and dhows came to E. Africa in December and left the coast in January. They did not use a motor in those days. Mansukhkaka stayed in Mombasa until the Nairobi shop, Doshi Hardware Stores, was opened in 1951.