Small Businesses

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.

Jameel Shah, came from Bihar to Mumbai's Dharavi in the hope of meeting celebs. Today his 'Shah Shoes' makes 200 shoes per month for the likes of Aamir Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Kylie Minogue, Hrithik Roshan and more.

70-year-old Kanchan Parulekar helms Swayamsiddha, a Kolhapur-based organisation that, in the last 28 years, has worked to create women entrepreneurs. The businesses range from bakeries to food processing units, bag manufacturing units, beauty parlours and handicrafts.

At the end of 2020, the year which memes say ‘could not have been worse!’, we are here to tell you how you made India a better place.

During the lockdown, 79-year-old Kokila Parekh started a chai masala business from Mumbai home to keep herself active.

After ‘Baba Ka Dhaba’ in Delhi received immense support, many are sharing videos of local businesses. Here is one from Kerala.

“When people have to choose between dying of disease or starvation, they choose the former. There is no other option for us, even if it means exposing ourselves.”

Google CEO Sundar Pichai was in India to launch key programmes that will help India's small and medium business owners take advantage of the internet to grow their businesses.