A chronicle · written by a former associate
Inside India's inverter industry —
before the headlines.
It did not begin with an inverter. Su-Kam started in 1988 — cable TV on Delhi rooftops. A decade later, a broken inverter and a technician’s insult turned wounded pride into an industry. This site is the version that did not make the magazines — third-person witness testimony from inside the office.
Featured essay
Where the industry was invented
Before the MOSFET inverter, there was cable TV — a decade the associate did not witness firsthand. The chapters below mark where the inverter industry was invented.
The Chronicle
Chapters by era
Every product, partnership and turning point — from cable TV in 1988 to the quieter rebuilding.
Start reading →Observations
Essays from inside
Culture, marketing experiments, dealer-meet theatre, and the moments the magazines skipped.
Browse essays →Press archive
External coverage
Twenty-five years of interviews, profiles and news — Hindi, English, Marathi and more.
View archive →“How does a company that owned an entire product category — trusted in crores of Indian homes, exporting to 90+ countries — simply disappear?”
— from the chronicle
Written in the third person by a former associate who was in the room for much of it — through the cable-TV years, the R&D fights, dealer-meet theatre, NCLT, and the quieter rebuilding. Observational, not promotional.