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The Mother-Daughter Duo Who Bet ₹25 Crore That Hand-Embroidered Lucknowi Chikankari Belongs on the Global Runway—Not Just in Indian Trousseaus
WomenMay 22, 2026

The Mother-Daughter Duo Who Bet ₹25 Crore That Hand-Embroidered Lucknowi Chikankari Belongs on the Global Runway—Not Just in Indian Trousseaus

Aakriti Rawal was not supposed to be a fashion entrepreneur. She was a business school graduate with the kind of resume that leads to consulting firms and corporate strategy roles, not fabric swatches and artisan villages. Her mother, Poonam Rawal, was not supposed to be her co-founder. She was a homemaker who had spent decades watching the exquisite hand-embroidered chikankari of Lucknow slowly disappear from the world—replaced by machine-made imitations, devalued by middlemen, abandoned by the next generation of artisans who saw no future in a craft that paid pennies and offered no dignity.

The 20-Year-Old, the ₹1,000 Startup, and the 300 Women: How a Ludhiana Girl Turned Her Grandmother's Crochet Hooks Into a ₹12 Crore Empire
WomenMay 22, 2026

The 20-Year-Old, the ₹1,000 Startup, and the 300 Women: How a Ludhiana Girl Turned Her Grandmother's Crochet Hooks Into a ₹12 Crore Empire

Vanshika Mittal was 18 years old when she launched her first business. It failed. She had tried selling paintings—art she had made herself, poured hours into, believed in. Nobody bought them. The rejection was total and, in retrospect, the most valuable thing that ever happened to her. It taught her, at an age when most of her peers were filling out college applications, that the market does not care how hard you worked. It cares whether you made something people want.

The Luggage Brand That Asked a Radical Question: What If Women Designed Travel Gear for Women?
WomenMay 22, 2026

The Luggage Brand That Asked a Radical Question: What If Women Designed Travel Gear for Women?

The global luggage industry has spent decades designing products for a single, unspoken default customer: a man. The handles are sized for male hands. The organisational logic assumes a certain kind of packing—suits, shoes, gadgets—that bears little resemblance to how most women actually travel. The colour palette—black, charcoal, dark navy—is the palette of the business-class aisle, designed by industrial engineers who have never tried to find a specific pair of earrings in a carry-on at 35,000 feet.

The ₹5 Sachet That's Quietly Building India's Next FMCG Giant—One Village at a Time
StartupsMay 22, 2026

The ₹5 Sachet That's Quietly Building India's Next FMCG Giant—One Village at a Time

Ankur Dahiya has spent the past twelve months doing something that most FMCG executives would describe as commercially irrational. He has been selling shampoo, detergent, and cooking oil in single-use sachets priced at ₹5—roughly six cents—to customers in villages that are not connected by paved roads, in districts that do not appear on any consumer brand's growth map, through a network of women micro-entrepreneurs who had never sold anything before his company trained them.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: The Relentless Architect of India’s Biotech Revolution
WomenMay 4, 2026

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: The Relentless Architect of India’s Biotech Revolution

A Vision Ahead of Its Time In the late 1970s, when India’s industrial landscape was dominated by traditional sectors like manufacturing and textiles, the idea of building a biotechnology company was almost inconceivable. Scientific entrepreneurship was rare, venture capital was nearly nonexistent, and women in leadership roles were even rarer. Yet, in this unlikely environment, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw chose to build something the country had never seen before. What began as a small venture in a garage would eventually grow into Biocon — a global biopharmaceutical powerhouse that redefined India’s role in affordable healthcare and innovation.

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