The Golden Wrap – Bespoke Gifting Solutions

The Golden Wrap is a gifting company born out of Sapna Koshy’s passion for creativity. Founded in 2012, the brand has become a go-to choice for corporate, wedding, and celebration gifts. Sapna began as a ‘one-man army’ and has now grown the company to a team of seven. The art of gifting memories After the […]

The Wedding Experience – Crafting Stories into Celebrations

The spark behind The Wedding Experience Charannya Seetharam is a dentist-turned-wedding planner, making the leap from being in the medical field to planning events out of sheer passion. She had the opportunity to plan an important event before even starting the brand: her own wedding! “I decided to plan my wedding on my own, because […]

Elbow Engineers – Of Eco-Bricks, Atmospheric Water and Mosquito Traps

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In 2015, as Chennai was drowning in the chaos of one of its worst floods, Kumar Loganathan stood in disbelief – not because of the water, but because of the irony. “There was water everywhere,” he recalls, “and yet people couldn’t drink a single drop.” That visual haunted him for years and eventually became the […]

Queen Bee – The Determined Doll-maker of Queen Bee Crafts

When she was around six years old, Radhika was playing outside and fell, hurting her leg. She limped home and everybody thought it was a regular wound that would cure and go away. Soon, the pain persisted and the parents brought her to the hospital where they found it was a bone fracture, and the […]

The Value in Crafting Memories

Tucked in between the small dense apartments of Pallikaranai is a quaint studio with antique paraphernalia, rare books and glimmering statues of political and historic leaders—of varied sizes between ten inches to seven feet tall. “Sillaii,” Arun Titan enunciates, “No matter which part of the world you come from, the pronunciation is more or less […]