Entrepreneurs

Arpita and Sujay Das started Chakum Chukum in Bengaluru in 2009. Serving tasty vegetarian, chicken and mutton rolls, the couple is serving up authentic Bengali flavours in the capital of Karnataka.

Ruchi Jain, a Pune-based entrepreneur, runs Paivi, an eco-friendly startup that manufactures edible straws to eliminate single-use plastic.

Sheela Bajaj, 78-year-old grandma from Delhi, rekindled her passion of crochet during the lockdown and turned it into a business. The demands for her products are now 10 times the supply.

Ananya and Anushree Maloo from Ahmedabad just bagged a Rs 25 lakh offer on Shark Tank India for their brand Nuutjob, a brand that sells male intimate hygiene products.

Rejimon Thankachan from Kollam in Kerala, uses 22 different varieties of grains to make sugar-free but sweet oats under his brand Glorys Foods.

Krishnan Mahadevan runs Iyer Idly in Bengaluru with his mother Uma. Established by his father in 2001, it sold only idli and chutney for almost two decades.

Sumit Goyal and Prachi Bansal conceived Ecosys — a Mumbai startup that offers eco-friendly cleaning solutions in Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) capsules

Bengaluru-based Vaibhav Anant quit his job to launch the eco-friendly startup Bambrew, which makes packaging with bamboo and wood pulp to replace plastic.

BotLab Dynamics, the IIT startup behind the 2022 Republic Day celebrations, explain how they pulled off a thousand drones filling up the sky during the Beating Retreat ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan

Meet Akshay Shrivastav, an engineer from Uttar Pradesh who has launched LCB Fertilisers to develop a biofertiliser that can help farmers increase their yield and significantly reduce water requirements