Entrepreneurs

Diginoor, an NFT marketplace launched by 18-year-old Shaamil Karim and Yash Rathod from Chennai is creating a means to buy cinema NFTs in India, including rare images from Rajinikanth films.

Kerala-based Vinayakumar Balakrishnan runs Thooshan with his wife Indira. Together they make eco-friendly tableware using rice and wheat bran. Here’s their story.

Leela Bordia, founder of Neerja International, employs 1000 local artisans to create more than 500 designs in blue pottery.

For two decades, Telangana's Veer Shetty Biradar -- the founder of SS Bhavani Foods -- has been making millets like sorghum, bajra, foxtail millet and finger millet accessible to the masses.

The Wicker Story founded by Priyanka Narula works with traditional craftsmen on making unique products made of cane.

Ritu Bhansali and her daughters, Diva and Diya Bhansali from Jaipur sell homemade skin and haircare products via their brand ‘Everything Mom Made’ on Instagram.

Saranya and Devakumar Narayan, a Kerala-based couple, run Papla, an eco-friendly startup that makes tableware and other items of out areca leaves.

Founded by Mumbai's Hemangi and Prashant Nakwe, Hema's Veg Rasoi has so far served over 10,000 healthy meals inspired from traditional Maharashtrian recipes.

Nandan Bhat’s Pune-based social enterprise, EcoKaari upcycles plastic waste into handcrafted fabrics using handlooms and wooden spindles (charkha).

With no background in the textile and apparel world, Sujata and Taniya Biswas left their cushy corporate jobs and started building Suta, which is empowering weavers and making beautiful sarees.