Kunwer Sachdev started Su-Kam in 1998 with a single broken inverter and a habit of taking things apart to understand them. Twenty-five years later, the company he built had created an inverter industry in India, exported to more than ninety countries, and given the country a generation of products it had not asked for and could not afterwards live without. Then it ended in NCLT proceedings. Then he started Su-Vastika and began again.
The press has covered that arc, broadly, more than once. Magazines have profiled him. Television has interviewed him. Hindi, English, Marathi, Malayalam and Gujarati publications have all written some version of the same heroic-comeback frame.
This site is not that frame.
It is a chronicle written by a former associate of Kunwer Sachdev, in the third person, with the specificity of someone who was inside the office during much of what is described. It covers the products and the patents, but it also covers the moments the magazines were not interested in — the failed packaging, the dealer-meet experiments, the customs officer in Hong Kong, the eighteen months when the most important work was visibly invisible, the personal cost of NCLT. It is observational, not promotional. It is warm but not gossipy. It is the kind of record that does not normally get written about Indian founders, because the people who could write it usually do not.
The chronicler is anonymous by choice. The work is signed at the foot of every entry: by a former associate of Kunwer Sachdev.
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