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Posted 19-Dec-2016 Vol 7 Issue 51
Waste to wealth
Jaideep Sajdeh buys discarded hotel bed sheets from the US and gives them a new lease at his factory in India, where they are made into colourful shopping bags. He made a whopping Rs 4 crore from the business last year, says P C Vinoj Kumar
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Posted 09-Dec-2016 Vol 7 Issue 50
Flower power
As a 16-year-old Bollapally Srikanth left his hometown in Telangana and came to work in a flower farm in Bengaluru for a monthly salary of Rs 1,000. He is a leading floriculturist today with an annual turnover of Rs 70 crore, says Usha Prasad
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Posted 07-Dec-2016 Vol 7 Issue 49
Taste of success
An ice cream brand in Kolkata hit rock bottom and the owner’s family ran into a personal debt of Rs 30 lakh. But the family’s elder son, then just 22, rebuilt the business with tasty fruit ice-creams made from natural ingredients, says G Singh
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Posted 02-Dec-2016 Vol 7 Issue 49
Fortune from pens
The founder of a Rs 350 crore turnover company, the third largest pen maker in the country, Surajmal Jalan, arrived in Kolkata from his village in Rajasthan virtually penniless, riding on a third-tier general class railway coach, says G Singh
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Posted 23-Nov-2016 Vol 7 Issue 47
Money in chai
A young chartered accountant, Robin Jha, started a chai shop in Delhi 3 years ago with his hard-earned savings and some contributions from his friends. Today, his 21-outlet chain does Rs 50 lakh business every month, says Narendra Kaushik
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Posted 19-Nov-2016 Vol 7 Issue 47
New game plan
Private taxi operators in Bengaluru are having plans to launch their own company like Ola and Uber, said Renuka Aradhya, managing director of Pravasi Cabs at an award function in Vellore, where he also shared his rags-to-riches success story
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Posted 18-Nov-2016 Vol 7 Issue 47
Juicy Story
When school buddies Manav Shital and Niti Agrawal – founders of a fast growing juice chain - fell in love, they didn’t stop at whispering sweet nothings into each other’s ears but also discussed ways to earn their money, says P C Vinoj Kumar
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Posted 12-Nov-2016 Vol 7 Issue 46
Getting batter daily
Circumstances were never in favour of P C Mustafa. Son of a daily wager, who grew up in a remote village in Kerala which had no electricity or proper roads, he defied all the odds to build a Rs 100 crore turnover company, says Usha Prasad
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Posted 10-Nov-2016 Vol 7 Issue 45
Foodie dad
A 26-year-old youth from the small town of Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu, A Gopinath, is earning lakhs of rupees every month from his You Tube channel, which shows his father cooking and eating varieties of non-vegetarian dishes, says P C Vinoj Kumar
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Posted 05-Nov-2016 Vol 7 Issue 45
Never say die
Holding an MBA and coming from a business family, Dheeraj Gupta launched his first venture with great confidence, but lost Rs 55 lakh in under two years. Not the one to quit, he set up a vada pav shop and repaid his debts, says P C Vinoj Kumar
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Posted 31-Oct-2016 Vol 7 Issue 44
Reaping profit
Farmers in Rajasthan are cultivating olive and dates, with support from the state government, using drip irrigation system. Ashish Mishra spoke to the farmers and found that many are ready for their first harvest and expecting a windfall
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Posted 28-Oct-2016 Vol 7 Issue 44
Benevolent billionaire
Surat-based billionaire diamond merchant Savji Dholakia, known for his generous gifts to his employees, has gifted 400 flats and 1,260 cars as Diwali bonuses this year to his well-performing staffers
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Posted 24-Oct-2016 Vol 7 Issue 43
Poverty to Prosperity
Arokiaswamy Velumani, the founder of Thyrocare, currently valued at Rs 3,600 crore, attended school with a slate on one hand and a plate in another at his village in Tamil Nadu since he took the free mid-day meals at school, says P C Vinoj Kumar
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Posted 21-Oct-2016 Vol 7 Issue 43
Destiny in Jute
Giving up a well-paid corporate job and after a short stint in the family business, Saurav Modi started making jute products with the Rs 8,000 he borrowed from his mother. Now his company has achieved a turnover of Rs 6.5 crore, says Usha Prasad
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Posted 15-Oct-2016 Vol 7 Issue 42
The survivor
As a street kid Amin Sheikh had seen it all – sexual abuse, rape, and drugs – before he came under the care of an orphanage. Somma Banerjjee met the gritty survivor, who now runs a cafe that’s changing the lives of street children like him
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Posted 10-Oct-2016 Vol 7 Issue 41
Living the dream
Working in his father’s small grocery shop for a meagre income, Ganesh Prasad Agarwal had a big dream – he wondered, why not make biscuits like Parle and Britannia. Today, he lives his dream heading a Rs 100 crore biscuit company, reports G Singh
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Posted 05-Oct-2016 Vol 7 Issue 40
Health is wealth
A man who dropped out of MBA because he did not want to be a burden to his struggling middle class family and started his career as a medical representative for a salary of Rs 350, now heads a Rs 48 crore health food brand, says P C Vinoj Kumar
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Posted 22-Sep-2016 Vol 7 Issue 38
Scripting success
When he landed his first job as a car washer for a monthly salary of Rs 500, B M Balakrishna would not have known that he would one day be heading a Rs 20 crore turnover company. The fascinating success story of a farmer’s son from Chittoor
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Posted 21-Sep-2016 Vol 7 Issue 38
Taking wings
Renting a two-roomed chawl to set up an STD booth and borrowing Rs.2,000 from his dad to become a ticket agent, Arun Kharat has built a Rs. 140 crore turnover business comprising car rental, radio cab and staff transport, says Somma Banerjjee
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Posted 12-Sep-2016 Vol 7 Issue 37
Cab to riches
Hunger was his biggest enemy as a child and he had begged with his father for a bowl of rice. For 3 years he even worked as a sweeper in an office. Usha Prasad tells the story of the owner of a Rs 40 crore turnover cab service in Bengaluru
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Posted 27-Aug-2016 Vol 7 Issue 35
Simply Sindhu
Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu’s strategy to become World No. 1 is simple – if you keep winning tournaments, you automatically become number one, she told Mohammed Shafeeq in an interview
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Posted 06-Aug-2016 Vol 7 Issue 32
Mover and shaker
Vijay Sankeshwar entered the transport business as a 19-year-old, investing Rs 1.20 lakh on a single truck and with a dream to succeed. Today, he is a media baron and heads a Rs. 1,800 crore transport and logistics company, says Usha Prasad
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