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In the 1970s, coconut oil 🥥was a commodity. Loose. Unbranded. Sold in tins with no name, no trust, no identity. A young Harsh Mariwala watched all this from the small office of Bombay Oil Industries. People weren’t asking for the company, founder or quality. They bought oil, not a
🌱 A Seed That Started Far From Home In 1970, a young Pondicherry student, Dilip Kapur, left India for the U.S., where he studied, worked in leather factories, and travelled through Europe ✈️. With every place he visited, he picked up something new — hand-tanning, natural dyes, vegetable tanning, and slow artisanal
Every Indian startup has a story. But Zouk? It has a soul. 💚 Every founder chase opportunity. But in 2016, Disha Singh chased purpose. From a small Mumbai corner, Disha and Pradeep Krishnakumar built Zouk — a vegan, vibrant D2C brand blending handloom heritage with modern ambition. 🌱 The Beginning — A Dream Stitched
🧑⚖️In 1897, a young Parsi lawyer named Ardeshir Burjorji Godrej kept failing his way forward. He tried law, chemistry, and even business — none worked. But each failure taught him something new, and that persistence led him to a small Lalbaug workshop in Bombay, where he began building locks. At that
Every decade has a brand that defines India’s resilience. In the 1970s, that brand was Emami. 🌱 The Beginning: When Belief Was the Only Capital In 1974, two Birla Group colleagues — R.S. Agarwal and R.S. Goenka — quit secure jobs to chase a question that didn’t even sound