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Thank you, @b50, @movingquill, and @ChinmayTumbe, for an engaging session on two iconic Indian brands. #BusinessHistory #EconomicHistory #HistoryLitFest #Hyderabad #IndianHistory

Readers in Hyderabad, meet our authors at the @HistoryLitFest. Starting tomorrow! @dineshcsharma @narayani_basu @Sumana_Ramanan @movingquill @BeyondBiry37380

Business storyteller and author @movingquill will join fellow speakers at #HistoryLitFest in Hyderabad next weekend. 🎙️He will delve into his book, the global rise of homegrown Indian brands, and the ideas behind their growth stories. Do register and join us! 🙌

Drawing from The Rise of Asian Paints and Amrut: The Global Churn, this session explores how firms build legacies and respond to change. Register to join us for this session featuring @b50, @movingquill and @ChinmayTumbe! #HistoryLitFest #Hyderabad #BusinessHistory

Book “Shakha to Nation: Great Speeches of RSS 1925-2025” by Dr Ram Madhav @rammadhav_ was launched in Bengaluru by Sri V Nagaraj, President of Mythic Society and Business Historian Sriram Devatha at BMS Engineering College Auditorium, Bengaluru.

Book Launch and Discusssion, SHAKHA to NATION, The Greatest Speeches of RSS 1925-2025, on Sunday, November 30, 2025 at 6.30 PM at Auditorium, BMS Engineering College, Basavanagudi, Bengaluru. Dr Ram Madhav @rammadhav_ , Sri V Nagaraj, Sri Sriram Devatha @movingquill to address.

Time to stock up for your weekend read? Pick these from the @crossword_book Awards Longlist!

We are thrilled to have @movingquill’s Amrut on the @GajaBookPrize longlist!

Your Classmate notebook? Funded by cigarettes. ITC began as a British tobacco monopoly in 1903. Today, 75% of its profits still come from smoking, while BAT remains its top shareholder. An empire built on ash—rebranded as Indian. #ITC #Tobacco #BusinessHistory

In 1996, Tupperware turned Indian housewives into stealth sales agents.💡
Selling at kitty parties, no ads, no retail. It worked—until India went online.📱
Tupperware didn’t. By 2021, 80% of sales were still offline.
Amazon moved in. Game over.
#Tupperware #Strategy

He was born into poverty, orphaned young—and laughed at by Elon Musk. 🚗 Yet today, Wang Chuanfu’s BYD is the world’s largest EV maker, supplying batteries to Tesla and partnering with Toyota. His secret? Build when everyone says no. #BYD #Resilience #Entrepreneurship

He quit his IT job to change how Bangalore drinks milk. 🥛 By helping farmers launch micro-dairies & cutting out middlemen, Jashi built Akshayakalpa—a ₹400cr brand. His masterstroke? Inviting customers to visit the farms. Trust turned into loyalty.💥 #Startups

In 1974, Terry Gou started with $7.5K molding TV knobs in Taiwan. He reverse-engineered every part to cut costs. Ran factories like Genghis Khan. Owned every step—from plastic to full notebooks. That’s how Foxconn became Apple’s $200B secret weapon. Wild.

Labubu: matted hair, gremlin teeth & beady eyes—anything but cute, yet the ultimate collectible. Blind‑box drops (1/72 secret variant), TikTok unboxing mania, $150K resales & 46K+ fakes seized. Scarcity + surprise = obsession. #Labubu #Collectibles

In 1995, Ted Turner changed Indian TV forever➡️ Launched Cartoon Network when kids had only Doordarshan.➡️ Dubbed shows in Hindi & regional languages. ➡️ Hooked millions of kids—and brands like Maggi & Chocos. But YouTube & Netflix ended its monopoly.

Harsh Mariwala changed coconut oil forever.
➡️ Launched round Parachute bottles rats couldn’t bite.
➡️ Branded it as edible oil to save 20% tax.
➡️ Built a ₹10,000 cr empire with Parachute owning 63% market share. Smart design + smart loophole = Market domination. #FMCG

In 1956 at Dartmouth, John McCarthy convened mathematicians, engineers & psychologists to ask: “Can machines learn?” They coined “Artificial Intelligence,” shifting from automata theory to a bold new field. That 8‑week workshop changed everything. 🤖✨ #AIHistory #Dartmouth1956

One rumor destroyed Dalda’s 30‑year monopoly. In the ’90s, whispers that “Dalda contains animal fat” spread across India. Housewives abandoned it, new vegetable oils surged, and by 2003 Unilever divested the brand. Trust lost—no ad could save it. #BrandCrisis #TrustEconomy

IIT chem engineer Ankit Garg saw ₹50k mattresses were just foam overpriced by middlemen. He launched Wakefit: vertical‑integrated, online D2C mattresses with a 100‑day trial & personal follow‑up calls. Now it’s a ₹1,000 cr+ home‑comfort empire. #D2C #StartupIndia

How underwear went from taboo to ₹4,900 cr premium fashion in India: Jockey’s Indian‑origin partner flipped the script—huge ads with foreign models, comfort‑as‑couture, 2× pricing, zero discounts. Result? A ₹4,900 cr sales blockbuster. 🩲🔥 #BrandReinvention