A leaking-roof barsati in Delhi is not where you’d expect to find the birthplace of a company that now earns close to fifteen billion dollars a year. But that’s exactly

In 1948, a father in a Rajasthani village carried his ten-year-old son on his shoulders for three hours because there was no hospital nearby, and no money for one closer.

A shuttered factory building in a Bengal town, empty for two years after its previous owner went bankrupt, became the unlikely starting point for one of India’s most recognised brands.