The story of Akanksha Modi, founder, Roots and Herbs, a vegan cosmetic brand started with Rs 1000 exemplifies the story of modern India where people born into middle–class families are building multi-crore turnover companies, says Gurvinder Singh

A teenager who saw his family’s fortunes crumbling right in front of his eyes decided to fight back by quitting his studies and plunging into business. Sofia Danish Khan profiles the founder of SafeKraft India, who started from almost nothing

Debashish Majumder dared to dream big and decided to become an entrepreneur at age 30, even though he had lost around Rs 8 lakh in an earlier business. Starting with Rs 3.5 lakh, he built a Rs 18 crore turnover momos business, says Shyla Faiz

In 2013, Vinayak Lohokare, who was then just 24 yrs old, started his first outlet of Café Chocolicious with Rs 5 lakh from a 300 sq ft rented space. Now, with an additional brand, he has built a Rs 19 crore turnover business, says Somma Banerjjee

In today’s day and age, it is no longer the preserve of only the uber-rich to make passive income, says Priyanka Mashelkar, Author, 15 Sure-Shot Ways to Hit the Jackpot, as she offers 7 ways to make your money work for you while you are asleep

Divam Jain and Aditi quit their jobs to start Fabnest, a women’s apparel brand, in 2017. It took a lot of faith and courage for the couple to quit their jobs and start a business when their twin daughters were just three years old, says Bilal Khan

Sangeeta Lala started Fanzart, a luxury fan brand in 2012 along with her husband Anil Lala when she was 50 years old. Ten years later, she has made it a Rs 100 crore turnover brand with about 100 outlets around the country, says Partho Burman

From his humble beginnings as a salesman in a saree showroom where he was earning a paltry salary of Rs 1400, Anuj Mundhra rose to build a Rs 46 crore turnover apparel brand with his hard work and a never-say-die spirit, says Kavita Kanan Chandra

Hailing from the historic city of Madurai in south Tamil Nadu, a 21-year-old undergraduate student Surya Varshan has built a cosmetic and skincare brand with current turnover of Rs 56 lakh and a valuation of Rs 10 crore, says P C Vinoj Kumar

For Vinny Soni, who is currently involved in real estate business in Canada, the motivation to create wealth is to generate a steady passive income so that he could pursue his other passions without worrying about money, says Sofia Danish Khan

Founder of Tea Time, Uday Srinivas Tangella, who returned to India after quitting his high paying job in Dubai, has not only succeeded as an entrepreneur, but also created close to 3,000 small business owners in just six years, says Bilal Khan

Hailing from a humble family in a small village in Madhya Pradesh, Sagar Patidar, the 28-yr-old founder of Gurgaon-based software company, Primathon Technologies, was the first engineer from his agriculture-oriented family, says Tamanna S Mehdi

Vipin Gupta’s business suffered severe losses in 2015 and his family was pushed into deep debt. How Vipin’s young son Rajat Gupta took over the business and built it into a Rs 65 crore turnover company makes a gripping story, says Bilal Khan

Growing up in a one room one kitchen house in a chawl in Mumbai’s Dongri area, Moiz Rajkotwala and his brother Shabbir Rajkotwala rose from humble origins to build a Rs 188 crore turnover raised access floor business from scratch, says Bilal Khan

Rakesh Goyal built a successful insurance brokerage firm in a city where he knew nobody and had no job or contacts when he arrived in 2000. Gurvinder Singh traces the success story of the founder of Mumbai-based Probus Insurance Broker Pvt Ltd