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How a Trip to Mumbai’s Dharavi Made This Bihar Man A Multi-Millionaire
In 1998, M I Siddiqui, a resident of Muzaffarnagar in Bihar, left for a trip to Bombay with his 19-year-old cousin. The latter was heading to the city to enroll in a computer hardware course, so...
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Bengal Saree Artisan Goes From Making Rs 2.5 Per Day to Running a Rs 50 Cr...
As I congratulate India’s fourth-highest civilian award, the Padma Shri winner, for his exceptional contribution towards bringing global fame to the traditional art of Jamdani and Tangail sarees, a...
View ArticleWATCH: #SustainableStartup in Assam Makes 100% Biodegradable Tea Bags
As the world takes a stance against single-use plastics such as polythene bags, plastic bottles, food wrappers, straws, stirrers or styrofoam cups, the unsuspecting tea bag, which also uses plastic, is...
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A Billionaire Who Left the US to Help Indian Villages Make Software for the...
Billionaire; one of India’s richest men; tech entrepreneur; self-made man; Padma Shri awardee — perhaps you have heard of Sridhar Vembu (54) by one of the above descriptions. Though, when you speak to...
View ArticleWATCH: Startup That Pays You For Your Cigarette Butts & Turns Them into Toys
It is a well-known fact that smoking is injurious to health but did you know that cigarettes are the most littered item on Earth? Across the world about 4.5 trillion cigarettes are discarded each year...
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How 2 Homemakers Built Their Own Indigenous Pizza Ovens & Won Over Gujarat
Gujaratis share a strong relationship with food, and this to me is neither a stereotype nor an exaggeration. As a Maharashtrian, eating meals at my gujju best friend’s house was always a delight. The...
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Quitting Cushy Jobs, Gurugram Couple Starts ‘Flower Subscriptions’ That Earns...
We bring you so many stories of couples who choose to quit their corporate jobs and come out of their comfort zone to pursue a passion or a dream they once nurtured. One question I have always asked...
View ArticleThis App Is Helping 1 Lakh Women Across 16 Countries Take The Safest Route Home
This article has been sponsored by MG Motor India Stalking, groping, catcalling — these are just some of the many ways in which women are made to feel unsafe. Traversing down dark and empty streets...
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With a Tiny Kiosk & Vada Pav, Mumbai Man Built a Rs 100 Cr Food Empire
In Maharashtra, vada pav is a staple breakfast food, an evening snack, and sometimes a quick meal on the go, all in one. The street food is humble yet famous, and affordable to the masses at large. It...
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Women-Led Startup Take Handmade Pesto, Buckwheat Tea From Ladakh to India &...
In September 2018, Rigzin Angmo met three friends who would a year later join her as co-founders of Kangla-Nyishar, which means sunflower in Ladakhi. The Leh-based startup makes artisanal food with...
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65-YO Granny Starts Homemade Sweets & Savoury Biz, Earns Revenue Up To Rs 4 Lakh
Manju Devi Poddar has been cooking since she was 15 and follows one motto religiously — feed everyone. As we speak on a video call, the delightful lady (with her pepper-grey hair rolled up in a bun...
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Delhi Woman Revives Grandma’s ‘Secret’ Parsi Spice Mixes; Exports Across The...
There remain few things that invoke the same sense of joy, nostalgia and unparalleled taste the way a grandmother’s cooking does. For me, it was my nani’s aloo parathe and pudina chutney, the taste of...
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From US to India, 200+ Entrepreneurs Look Up To This Delhi Woman as Their ‘Guru’
Bored with school one day, 16-year-old Arjita Sethi asked her mother, Alka Sethi, whether she could become her business partner. Alka had established The School of English, a Delhi-based institute that...
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Shillong Venture ‘Making Farmers Famous’, Supplies World’s Finest Turmeric
Lakadong Valley in the picturesque West Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya is famous for its special type of turmeric – Lakadong Turmeric. This wonder spice is known to have an exceptionally high curcumin...
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Bamboo Leaf Tea, Anyone? Tripura Entrepreneur Exports 600 Kgs of It to Europe
“I brought back something good from China,” says 36-year-old Samir Jamatia, a resident of Tripura, who refers to himself as a ‘bamboo technologist’. After having studied the benefits of bamboo and its...
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The Hyderabad Woman Behind Corbevax, India’s Upcoming Low-Cost COVID-19 Vaccine
India has placed an order to block 300 million doses of a new COVID-19 vaccine called Corbevax manufactured by Hyderabad-based Biological E. Unlike other vaccines being administered in the country,...
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How I Started My Sustainable Skin Care Brand With Lotion Bars & Bath Bombs at 14
Ankita Kureel, a resident of Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, is a one-woman army. Founder of Astral Kind, a sustainable skin care brand, she takes care of making the products, marketing them, social media...
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59-YO Makes Traditional Homemade Tamil Delicacies a Hit In Mumbai, Earns Rs...
Every alternate Monday, Meena Subramanian posts a new menu on Instagram offering a range of traditional, pure vegetarian food items such Kozhakattai, Poricha Kozhambu, Vayyakai Kara Kari, Vendakkai...
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Starting With Rs 10,000, Uttarakhand Lad Takes Himshakti ‘Pahadi Namak’ to...
Didsari, a tiny village in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district, is known for its distinctive seasoned salts, where almost every household in the village prepares its own salts. It is a very ancient...
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62-YO Accidental Entrepreneur is Taking Ancient Indian Board Games to the World
The year 2020 brought in both uncertainties as well as new experiences, and the lockdown was a bit of both. The positive side to it was that we all got a little bit more time to spend with our...
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