When 17-year-old Jayanta and Kailash started their Chhath Puja snack venture, they had just ₹20,000: ‘He used to wake up at 6am to sell water bottles’; today, their thekua business is worth ₹1 crore
The idea came to the teens when Jayanta ate a thekua at his friend kailash’s house. “I ate it and thought, ‘This is something you get only once a year. Why not sell it?’” For 17-year-old Jayanta and his friend Kailash, teenagers from West Bengal, what began with a thought after tasting thekua during Chhath […]
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