Media Eye May 18, 2021Seventy-one years ago, when she married an army captain, it would not have occurred to her that her name would one day become a brand that traversed the globe. Scion of a wealthy business family from Malabar, cantonment life was not something she was prepared for. She was destined for a higher calling and she made the transition with the grace of a ballet dancer.
Leela Krishnan Nair kept that flag flying high until her end, at a sprightly age of 90, on Sunday, May 16 – a day before her beloved husband’s seventh death anniversary. In 1951, a year after Captain C. P. Krishnan Nair tied the knot to Leela, the army man gave up his boots at the insistence of his wife and plunged headlong into the textile business.
