As our soaps are curing (drying), I travel to my village to check on them and also all the didis. The sweltering heat does not deter me from visiting them but my miniscule inconvenience does not compare to theirs either. Even in this heat, they are out harvesting their crop (soybean to be precise) and

Recently, I was speaking to someone who had an online platform, to list my products on their site. During the conversation, they told me that they would help me in marketing our soaps but I had to brand my soaps under a different name because Kinglee Xperience was not a name that people can identify

These days proverbs tend to have a much deeper meaning than intended and as time goes by intrinsic thought patterns lay with a plethora of philosophical ideologies that keep adding layers to it, at times deviating from the intended use or fishing out a much deeper meaning.“If you give a man a fish, you feed

1. We utilise the village’s largest underemployed populous, the women workforce. 2. Remove the problem of ‘people come to the village, start something, take pictures, close and leave’. 3. Educating the village women and challenging them through constant exposure and innovation. 4. Can the products be made and the ingredients be grown in the village?

Using Handmade organic soaps are an expensive affair. If you do buy an expensive bar, keep in mind to use it as one. Buying a ₹300 and using it like a ₹30 bar makes no sense. I have had people tell me that the bar dissolved quickly or the bar finished really fast and I

My dream has always been to build a sustainable company that grows through symbiosis where we produce bathing bars and in the future our travel soaps will be sold in coconut shells which will sprout it’s own vertical. The products must be handmade as much as possible, made in a village with the local populous.

Its 2017, a beautiful Sunday morning in Kolkata, I awoke in a state of mind I would never wish upon anyone. I was depressed at the time for a while and kept questioning myself, “what am I doing with my life?”   The previous week was chaotic as I had enough of working in a corporate

I first met Swetcha during our 2nd review of the SBI Youth for India Fellowship. She had a small workshop of dying clothes and I have always wanted to do it and was super stoked. Her talk on ethical wear and ethical dying was something that stuck with me and the designs from dying were

Cyrus has been a beacon for animal welfare and saving animals, both wild and domestic from abuse, near death and neglect. As far as I can remember, he has always been drawn toward animals and is well known around Lucknow for his work. His farm CYRO the kingdom and Pet Sanctuary is a safe haven

My 13 month State Bank Of India fellowship wasn’t as smooth sailing as I thought in the beginning. I was taking over an existing fellows project which was based on animal feed (mineral mixture and salt bricks). Though salt bricks was a straight forward process, mineral mixture was a little complicated where one had to

When I was designing Mr. Nixon’s range of bathing bars, I wanted to showcase the way he inspires everyone. The bars have three colors, the center represents Mr. Nixon and his energy and exuberance is amplified to the rest of us. A motivational speaker, a passionate climate advocate, the President and COO of the State

I have always asked myself,’How can I make a change in someone’s life? how can I make a macro change to the environment around me? how can I give back?’. The answers to these questions aren’t simple.I went with the notion of trying to help one person and then slowly one village. Rural India is