Small Businesses of India

Kiru Maikkapillai from Salem, Tamil Nadu, sells value-added products made out of turmeric via his startup The Divine Foods.

Kerala couple Devakumar and Saranya quit their corporate jobs in the UAE to launch Papla, a venture that makes sustainable tableware, grow bags and more from arecanut leaf sheaths.

Deepika Ravi from Karur, Tamil Nadu, sells value-added moringa edibles and beauty products. Here’s the story behind her startup, The Good Leaf.

Gurgaon-based Ashvini Jakhar served as a doctor in the Indian Navy for almost seven years before starting his cloud company Prozo. They offer affordable warehousing to small mid-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Chandni Khandelwal from Odisha launched her startup Ecoloop last year to provide handmade and eco-friendly alternatives to plastic using bamboo, palm leaves, sabai grass and more.

Beating the odds, Geetha Saleesh from Kerala didn't let her disability get in the way of running her successful online business that delivers pan India.

Anandu Ajay, Mohammed Shafi and Mohammed Shanavas started the 'BTech Chai' in Kollam, Kerala. It offers over 50 flavours of tea ranging between Rs 5 to Rs 45.

Started by a mother-daughter duo Dhatri and Satya Ayyagari, yourDesiCart is a startup that enables NRIs to order items from anywhere in India and have them delivered at an affordable rate.

A woman entrepreneur from Punjab, Kamaljit Kaur set up Kimmu's Kitchen to sell farm-fresh Bilona ghee to cities across India and even abroad.

Pranav Malhotra, the Managing Director of Pashtush, speaks of taking the intrinsic work of weavers and artisans from the villages of Punjab, Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh to the rest of the world, and how Facebook helped him bridge this gap amid the lockdown.