Epic Family Saga

The poetry attached to Harish Metha’s business is so alluring almost detracts from the success of the enterprise.

Metha, 54, is managing director of the Universal Print Group, a Durban company that had its roots in the Bombay Printing Works – a modest outfit that produced invoice books for Indian traders in Grey Street at the turn of the last century. But, to start at the very beginning: way back then, one Virjee Metha lived in the Indian village not far from where Mahatma Gandhi was born.