My parents were renters of an apartment belonging to Abdul Latif's nephew

My parents came to Gujarat in the 70s.

They lived in the Kutch initially. My mom recounted this recently to me. There was a building of apartments belonging to Mithu Kaka (Mithu bhai). All the families living in that building (or rather 'quarters') were govt. employees. Mithu Kaka had bought the building from someone else.

As it turns out, Mithu Kaka was the nephew of Abdul Latif!

And Mithu Kaka himself too used to engage in similar activities but on a smaller scale (probably as part of Latif's network, but that's my guess).

My mom also told me about lot of other interesting tidbits from that era.