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Why Ivy League and Wall Street alum Chinmay Shah gave up his plush job abroad...
Chinmay Shah earned his master’s in Economics from Duke University, and began working in equity research focused on the oil and gas sector in the US. But the fact that his heart lay in entrepreneurship...
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Why The Burlap People is on a quest to make jute cool again
“It’s a shame if young brands emerging under the current climate ignore the idea that the future must be greener in order to be brighter,” says Samriddh Burman, Founder of The Burlap People. For the...
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Why this French entrepreneur chose to start up in rural Bengal
Marie Ghyselinck chose an unusual time to start up. The Frenchwoman was in rural India and heavily pregnant. The former urban planner from Paris had realised her heart was not in office work and...
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Two Indians who live zero waste lives share tips, tricks and challenges
Two environmentally conscious minimalists explain how becoming zero waste does not mean transforming into hippies, but adopting a lifestyle that your grandmother probably championed.For the...
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How Savitha Rao went from being a fashion entrepreneur to becoming a...
Savitha started Clean Planet in 2010 in Mumbai to sell eco-friendly versions of mass produced products.For Savitha Rao it all began with a single article. The former international sales rep for a...
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Not for the income but the outcome: why Yogesh Shinde quit his European life...
Bamboo India wants to change bamboo’s common perception from ‘the poor man’s timber’ to ‘the wise man’s timber.’Over the centuries, human beings have been cleaning their teeth in a variety of ways,...
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How catering startup Ilham is making entrepreneurs out of illiterate Afghan...
Aditi Sabbarwal launched Ilham with a core team of four Afghan refugee women in Delhi that is not only bringing in revenues but giving the Afghan women the much-needed hope.Aditi Sabbarwal has a hard...
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From refugees to magnates: how Partition survivors built business empires in...
People who fled their homes overnight with only the clothes on their back were moulded by the hardships they faced to achieve extraordinary success.India - a culture that is thousands of years old but...
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‘Gutless’ foodie Natasha Diddee’s quest to choose living over existing
Life without a stomach can be devastating for anybody, but none more than a chef. Here’s how Natasha Diddee turned her pain into her power.For Natasha Diddee’s 80,000, and growing, number of followers...
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Five ways to lead a green life: easy ideas to reduce plastic use
The world’s plastic binge has been termed 'as dangerous as climate change'. Here are five easy alternatives to consider.Why should you want to live with less plastic? It is cheap, convenient and in...
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How this couple is slowly building Kokaachi, a startup in the serious...
Homegrown comic startup Kokaachi is surviving and growing in an industry set against it while staying true to its niche roots.“Is there really a ‘market’ for comics in India?” muses Pratheek Thomas,...
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Why engineer Ajay Naik sold his successful startup to become a hi-tech farmer
Letcetra Agritech is a hydroponics farm that occupies just 150 square metres of space but grows three tonnes of lettuce a month.“I am an early adopter. Early adopters of any new technology are few and...
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Dalit child bride to $112 million CEO: The wonder story of Kalpana Saroj
Kalpana Saroj is described as the 'original slumdog millionaire', a compliment as backhanded as it is degrading. Born in poverty and subjected to inhuman abuse, she overcame impossible odds to become...
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From refugees to magnates: how Partition survivors built business empires
People who fled their homes overnight with only the clothes on their back were moulded by the hardships they faced to achieve extraordinary success.India - a culture that is thousands of years old but...
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A forest of their own: the story and struggle behind creating India’s only...
After trying and searching the world over for years to follow their dream, Pamela and Anil Malhotra finally chose Kodagu to settle down and gave India her first and only private sanctuary, Sai...
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You are the answer to your adversity - Para-athlete Manasi Joshi on surviving...
Faced with a horrific accident and a limb amputation at 22, Manasi Joshi rose to become a world champion badminton player – a role she manages alongside her software engineering career.Manasi Joshi...
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Why Ashita and Anish Nath quit their jobs to start India’s first agricultural...
The Good Harvest School is a long-term effort to educate and champion the women farmers of tomorrow in hopes that they make the right choice both for themselves and the planet.Ashita and Anish Nath...
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From a street vendor to a multi crore company: Bhavesh Bhatia's story
Bhavesh Bhatia was not born blind, but had little vision while growing up. Born with retina muscular deterioration, he always knew that his sight would only get worse with time. But when, at 23, his...
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How Ameera Shah turned her father's single laboratory into a Rs 2,000 crore...
When Dr Sushil Shah graduated from medical school in the 1980s he felt dissatisfied by the inadequacies of the healthcare system in India, especially in the way medical tests were conducted. Determined...
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How a failed entrepreneur is minting millions with his recycling business...
Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Huston said, “You only need to be right once.” Hritesh Lohiya suffered through an embarrassing deluge of wrongs before stumbling onto the idea that would eventually make...
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