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Indian weddings are beautiful in photographs but exhausting in reality.

Somewhere between the sangeet, the baraat and running around in heavy outfits, comfort quietly disappears from the equation.

Shruti Kasat knew that feeling all too well.

As a toddler mom, constantly chasing her child across wedding venues, heels stopped making practical sense.

Sneakers became the obvious choice, but finding a pair that actually matched Indian occasion wear felt impossible.

That frustration eventually led to the creation of The Saree Sneakers in 2019.

The Kolkata-based brand combines handcrafted Indian embroidery like zardozi, chikankari and mirror work with the comfort of everyday sneakers,

creating occasion-wear footwear you can actually dance in for hours.

But beyond comfort, the brand is also helping preserve Indian artisanal techniques by giving them a more contemporary platform.

What started as a personal compromise between style and comfort slowly evolved into a niche fashion label that is now available across platforms like Myntra, Nykaa Fashion, Tata CLiQ Fashion and Aza Fashion.

Modern fashion is no longer about choosing between expression and ease, and the Saree Sneakers is testimony to that.

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In 1958, G.D. Birla placed a bet on a metal most Indians barely thought about.

Today, that same business wraps your rotis at home, while also supplying global giants like The Boeing Company and Coca-Cola,

That company is Hindalco. What started as one aluminium plant decades ago has quietly become one of India’s biggest industrial success stories,

operating across 30+ countries and building a global metals empire.

Most Indians know Hindalco through everyday products like Freshwrapp aluminium foil,

But behind the kitchen shelf is a massive industrial machine powering sectors far bigger, aviation, automobiles, construction,

packaging, electronics, renewable energy, and beverage manufacturing.

Its aluminium and copper products now move through global supply chains used by some of the world’s biggest companies,

And that’s the crazy part about old Indian industrial giants: they rarely go viral,

but they quietly sit behind millions of products people use every single day.

From household foil rolls to aircraft-grade materials,

Hindalco became proof that manufacturing scale can create global influence long before “startup culture” existed. Today,

the Aditya Birla Group company generates revenues worth over ₹2 lakh crore,

making it one of India’s largest metals businesses. A company built in post-independence India…

now helping power the modern global economy.