General

In 1877, in Thirukkurungudi, in Tamil Nadu, T.V. Sundram Iyengar was born to a family of Tamil brahmins. At the beginning of his professional life, T.V. Sundram Iyengar worked as …

I was with friends who frequently hung out at a coffee shop. Due to my long tenure in the coffee trade, I possess passable (not stellar, but fair) understanding knowledge of coffe…

Muhammed Hasham Premji, often known as the "Rice King of Burma," immigrated to India with his family and established a rice trading company in Bombay. Amalner is a tiny hamlet in …

In 1923, Mahashay Dharampal Gulati was born in Sialkot (now in Pakistan). His father, Mahashay Chunni Lal Gulati, opened a store in 1919 named "Mahashian Di Hatti" (which means "r…

The son of a modest farmer and a science graduate, Karsanbhai Patel first worked as a lab technician at New Cotton Mills, Ahmedabad. The New Cotton Mills was owned by the Lalbhai …

John Bissel had Hartford roots; his grandfather was the President of Hartford Fire & Life Insurance Company. John attended the Brooks School in North Andover and then graduate…

Hakeem Muhammad Kabeeruddin formulated Rooh Afza in 1906 in Ghaziabad and introduced by Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed in Old Delhi, India. Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed set out to develo…

Kasinathuni Nageswara Rao was born in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh in 1867. After finishing his elementary education at his birthplace, he moved to Madras to gradua…

To treat their children's cuts, cracked lips, and rough skin and infections, generations of Bengali families have relied on Boroline, a scented cream that has a long history of us…

Kanchi Morarji, hailing from Kutch in Gujarat, started this business in 1862. Later, he included his nephew, Vallabhdas, as a partner. The commission agency of Morarji and Vallabh…

As early as the 1950s and 1960s, numerous airlines began keeping track of customers and their travel habits. As a result of the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act, airline marketing…

Nalli Chinnasami Chetty was born in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. His ancestors were from Nalli, Andhra Pradesh, and had relocated to Kanchipuram. Since the fifteenth century, textiles…

Edward Abraham Dyer, an entrepreneur from Scotland, established a brewery in 1843. (who also happened to be the father of Colonel Reginald Dyer, who oversaw the unfortunate massac…

The year was 1957, and Alfred Fielding, a mechanical engineer with a machine shop business in Hawthorne, New Jersey, and Marc Chavannes, a Swiss chemical engineer, were attem…