It was the year 2013. Kern Agrawal and his wife, Ranjini, had completed their MBA and MCA degrees, respectively. The couple landed jobs at Standard Chartered Bank, and it looked like the future was set. It was not exactly what Kern’s father, a Gemstone merchant, had in mind for his son, but it was a […]
Legend has it that the Chinese Empress Leizu was sitting in the shade of a mulberry tree when she saw a little cocoon fall into her cup of hot tea. As she picked it up, she noticed that it unravelled into a fine thread. She unwound the string and was intrigued by how long and […]
Feeling playful and want to experiment with cooking something other than your usual vegetables? Try Green Goblin, one of Chennai’s first exotic produce stores, selling things you might not even have heard of! With a variety of fascinating ingredients, this store is just what you need to level up your meals. Sticking out like a […]
Karthick Shanmuga Sundaram, the founder of Gusteau Foods, talks about his entry into the food industry and supplying to the B2B sector. Calling his B2B venture a ‘COVID start-up’, Karthick explains how he switched careers from a corporate R&D job to establishing Gusteau Foods. He holds an MTech in Packaging Technology from the Indian Institute […]
A mother-daughter duo stands out In 2019, Jayadevi Cholayil decided to sell mangoes from their 81-acre farm in Vengal near Red Hills. The main idea was to prevent waste. Her daughter, Susmera Cholayil, gave a helping hand at the shop in Anna Nagar, Chennai. What began as a small shop is now a daily fresh […]
There was a cow in the middle of the road. This wasn’t just another lounging cow—indifferent to its urban surroundings. It had an air of discomfort. Deepesh Bhaskar motioned to his cab driver to stop so that he could take a closer look. There it was, the cow, dry-heaving helplessly as the traffic navigated around […]
