It is said that true entrepreneurs don’t just build companies, they build symbols that outlive them. In the story of Gour Mohon Dutta, a Bengali merchant turned visionary, that symbol took the form of a green tube with a white elephant. In a marketplace crowded with foreign goods, Dutta’s Boroline was not merely a cream; […]
For generations of Indian children, the fiercest debate in the classroom wasn’t about cricket scores or cartoons. It was about pencils: Nataraj or Apsara? Was Nataraj sturdier, the pencil for every child? Or did Apsara, with its legendary promise of “five extra marks,” hold the key to success? What students never realized was that both […]
When life closes a door, some search for another way in. Others build a whole new house. At just fifteen, Inder T. Jaisinghani was thrust into circumstances that could have easily broken him. Instead, he chose resilience. What began as a desperate attempt to save a family shop in Mumbai’s crowded Lohar Chawl would evolve, […]
In the bustling cities of early 2000s India, the hospitality market looked like a story of extremes. Five-star luxury hotels like the Taj and Oberoi catered to the elite, charging anywhere between ₹15,000 and ₹25,000 a night. On the other end of the spectrum, budget lodges offered rooms for ₹1,000, often dingy, unhygienic, and stripped […]
While the world quantifies success in foreign degrees, dollar paychecks, and a U.S. zip code, one man took a different route. For Vineet Goyal, success wasn’t about leaving India, it was about creating something here to last beyond him. Rather than pursue status overseas, he opted to cultivate communities locally. What started as a vision […]
When life pushed her into silence, she chose to paint her future with the colours of resilience. From abandonment as a young mother in a rented residence to establishing one of Maharashtra’s most promising beauty and art schools, Shamim Yunus Dhamaskar converted adversity into ambition. Now, as the founder of Ayesha & Rabiya’s School of […]
A boy from a small coastal village in Kerala once carried sacks on his shoulders under the desert sun of Abu Dhabi. Five decades later, that same boy, M. A. Yusuff Ali, stands as the architect of a retail empire worth over ₹30,000 crore, a name etched across skylines from Kochi to Kuwait. His journey […]
When the world saw dying crafts and unemployed artisans, she saw a revival waiting to happen. With no blueprint, no industry to lean on, and only a fierce belief in India’s heritage, Ritu Kumar transformed a few wooden blocks and silks into one of the country’s most influential fashion houses. Born in Amritsar in 1944 […]
