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Kunwer Sachdev, Marketing Genius — Philip Kotler, Shikaras, and the Brand-Building Instinct
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
10 July 2026
A former associate on why Mr Kunwer Sachdev was a marketing genius — sharing the dais with Philip Kotler, shikara and dhaba boards, dealer meets, YouTube and F…
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Su-Kam Hiring (2000): Kunwer Sachdev Asked What Do You Want in Life?
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
7 July 2026
Sir asked the question before he said whether I had a job. Around 2000 at Nangal Raya, a fresh graduate learned how Mr Sachdev hired — field tests, silence, an…
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What Really Happened to Su-Kam: The Story the Headlines Never Told
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
5 July 2026
Su-Kam didn't die of a bad product or a bad market. A former associate explains what really happened — the personal storm of 2010, ₹150 crore of frozen governm…
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The Day I Realised Kunwer Sachdev Was Building Something Bigger Than Su-Kam
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
17 June 2026
Kunwwer.ai encodes 35 years of Kunwer Sachdev's operator wisdom — legal, marketing and export know-how from building Su-Kam — into an AI co-pilot for Indian fo…
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Matrix Inbuilt Inverter: Kunwer Sachdev's Integrated Design That Physics Defeated
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
12 June 2026
Su-Kam once built an inverter with the battery already inside it — elegant in theory, 150AH heavy in practice. The legacy of the Matrix Inbuilt Inverter, and w…
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Service Outsourcing: Kunwer Sachdev Turned Su-Kam Engineers Into Entrepreneurs
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
12 June 2026
Su-Kam's service department was bleeding — turnover, inefficiency, even fraud. Kunwer Sachdev's fix was not to manage it harder. It was to set it free. The leg…
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Su-Kam Boardroom: Kunwer Sachdev Put Exide and ABB Leaders at His Table
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
12 June 2026
A self-made founder from a Delhi garage did something most self-made founders never do — he invited two of Indian industry's most accomplished leaders onto his…
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Telecom Towers & Walmart Easyday: Kunwer Sachdev's Deals That Got Away
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
12 June 2026
Two Su-Kam projects that should have worked and didn't — the telecom-tower inverter and the Bharti-Walmart Easyday backup deal. The legacy of how Kunwer Sachde…
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Sales Ka Bazigar: Kunwer Sachdev's ETV Hunt for Salesmen Without Degrees
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
10 June 2026
Most companies recruit salespeople from business schools. Kunwer Sachdev built a primetime television show to find them on the street. The legacy of 'Sales Ka…
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Su-vastika (2019): Kunwer Sachdev's Quieter Rebuilding After Su-Kam
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
10 June 2026
The press covered the fall of Su-Kam in detail. The rebuilding got no cameras. The legacy of what Kunwer Sachdev actually did after NCLT — Su-vastika, battery…
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Awards and Recognition of Kunwer Sachdev
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
2 June 2026
Kunwer Sachdev's awards and recognition — National Quality Award, Marico Innovation, Business Superbrand, ELCINA-EFY, ISA Technovation, Entrepreneur of the Yea…
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Life at Su-Kam — The Culture That Quietly Won Three HR Awards in a Row
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
2 June 2026
Life at Su-Kam under Kunwer Sachdev — Sports Day, Family Day, training, festivals, and the talent-spotting system hidden inside a chess match and a volleyball…
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Luminous: How Rakesh Malhotra and Navneet Kapoor's 600 sq ft Delhi Workshop Became Schneider Electric's Rs 1,866 Crore Indian Arm
Inverter Man of India Editorial
30 May 2026
How Rakesh Malhotra and Navneet Kapoor built Luminous from a 600 sq ft Delhi workshop into Schneider Electric's Rs 1,866 crore Indian arm — a power-electronics…
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Taught in the Classroom: How a Boy Who Sold Pens in Delhi Buses Became Case Study Material for India's MBA Students
Inverter Man of India Editorial
30 May 2026
In March 2011 a peer-reviewed Indian journal published a case study on Su-Kam — putting Kunwer Sachdev, the boy who sold pens on Delhi buses, on the academic s…
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Microtek's Foundation: How N.K. Aggarwal and O.P. Gupta Turned Delhi's Power Cuts Into a 120-Million-Customer Empire
Inverter Man of India Editorial
19 May 2026
How N.K. Aggarwal and O.P. Gupta turned a 1986 Delhi power cut into Microtek — India's number-one home UPS brand, serving 120 million customers across 29 count…
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The China Bite and the Markets Nobody Was Looking At
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
17 May 2026
While Indian industry was paralysed by fear of Chinese competition, Su-Kam was already selling in Africa, the Middle East, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan — a…
Read essay → From Su-Kam to Su-vastika: How Kunwer Sachdev Rebuilt After 2019
Inverter Man of India Editorial
15 May 2026
How Kunwer Sachdev rebuilt after Su-Kam wound down in 2019 — Khushboo Sachdev founded Su-vastika, and he pivoted to Lithium, BESS, BMS and a patent-first strat…
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How a College Rooftop in Chandigarh Became India's First 1 MW Solar Project
Inverter Man of India Editorial
15 May 2026
In 2015 Su-Kam switched on a 1 MW grid-connected solar system on the rooftops of Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh — the first of its kind in the country.
Read essay → The Megawatt That Changed How Indian Institutions Bought Solar: PEC, Su-Kam, and the Quiet Template That Spread
Inverter Man of India Editorial
15 May 2026
How Su-Kam's 1 MW solar project at Punjab Engineering College became the template that changed the way every Indian institution after it bought solar.
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The Outsider Who Ran Su-Kam Solar: Why Kunwer Sachdev Put a Non-Solar Person in Charge of India's MW Solar Push
Inverter Man of India Editorial
15 May 2026
When Su-Kam entered India's first MW-scale solar tenders, Kunwer Sachdev skipped the industry veterans and put an outsider, Ashish Sethi, in charge — and it wa…
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The Quiet Tender: Su-Kam's 3 MW Bet That Started India's MW Solar Era
Inverter Man of India Editorial
15 May 2026
India's first SECI solar tender drew cautious bidders. Su-Kam bid for 3 MW — and that 3 MW is where megawatt-scale solar in India quietly began.
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The Doctor Who Became the Inverter Man
Inverter Man of India Editorial
14 May 2026
One rejection letter from a medical college changed the course of Indian power. The origin story of Kunwer Sachdev — the boy who wanted to be a doctor and ende…
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Cable TV (1988): Kunwer Sachdev's First Venture Before Inverters
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
9 May 2026
The legacy author joined around 2000. For 1988–1999 — cable TV, exhibitions, instruments, VVIP installs — this page marks the boundary: witness testimony on th…
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Chic Inverter (2003): Kunwer Sachdev's India Today Award-Winning Design
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
9 May 2026
In 2003, Kunwer Sachdev launched India's first plastic-body inverter — overcoming sceptical engineers, a patenting mistake that let competitors copy the design…
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Home UPS (2005): Kunwer Sachdev Named the Category Every Competitor Copied
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
9 May 2026
In 2005, Kunwer Sachdev launched a product called the Home UPS — a device that could keep computers and televisions running through a power cut without any gap…
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India's First Sinewave Inverter (2003): How Kunwer Sachdev Eliminated Appliance Hum
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
9 May 2026
There was a sound in Indian homes that everyone had learned to ignore — until Kunwer ran two R and D teams against each other, then wheeled an oscilloscope int…
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India's First MOSFET Inverter (1998): Kunwer Sachdev's Accidental Breakthrough
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
8 May 2026
In 1998, a failing home inverter and a technician's insult opened a box at the factory — and a power-backup R and D chapter began. Marketing followed in 1999;…
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Kunwer Sachdev Saw Digital Before India Did
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
8 May 2026
Long before Indian industry understood what YouTube was for, Kunwer Sachdev built a free solar training channel — 167 videos that prove he read the digital fut…
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The Hybrid GTI Inverter: Kunwer Sachdev’s Quiet Revolution
Inverter Man of India Editorial
19 September 2025
How Su-Kam's Hybrid GTI inverter — a grid-tie design with an LCD panel, simple controls and unusually low power draw — showed Kunwer Sachdev building years ahe…
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When Vision Meets Innovation: The Story Behind Su-Kam’s Brainy S 2000 / 24V
Inverter Man of India Editorial
19 September 2025
Kunwer Sachdev's Brainy S 2000/24V turned the inverter into an intelligent solar PCU — running computers, appliances and solar together, years ahead of the mar…
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Power Guard: Kunwer Sachdev’s Revolutionary Answer to Inefficient Stabilizers
Inverter Man of India Editorial
12 August 2025
Su-Kam's Power Guard replaced the wasteful voltage stabilizer — Kunwer Sachdev's efficient surge-protection device that quietly saved 400-500 watts in every In…
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Innovation Takes Flight: The Story of Kunwer Sachdev’s LED Revolution
Inverter Man of India Editorial
9 August 2025
How Kunwer Sachdev took Su-Kam beyond inverters into LED lighting — an energy-efficient revolution that lit up Indian homes while cutting power bills.
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Kunwer Sachdev: A Visionary Who Redefined Corporate Governance in Indian Industry
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
1 August 2025
A former associate on how Mr Sachdev built a board with Exide and ABB leaders, refused nepotism, and made accountability culture — when most Indian founders fi…
Read essay → A Quiet Revolution: The Story Behind the Battery Life Cycle Tester
Inverter Man of India Editorial
28 July 2025
How Kunwer Sachdev's Su-Kam built the Battery Life Cycle Tester — a data-logging device that let engineers measure inverter battery health, charge cycles and l…
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The Dream That Touched the Screen — But Couldn't Shine
Inverter Man of India Editorial
28 July 2025
The story of Su-Kam's Brainy Touch — India's first touchscreen solar PCU with MPPT and Wi-Fi monitoring, conceived by Kunwer Sachdev years ahead of its time.
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The Man Who Made Inverters Smarter – Kunwer Sachdev’s 4-Star Revolution
Inverter Man of India Editorial
25 July 2025
On 21 July 2015, Su-Kam under Kunwer Sachdev became the first inverter company in India to earn a BEE 4-star energy-efficiency rating — the story of his high-f…
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Battery Equalization for Lead Acid Batteries
Inverter Man of India Editorial
24 July 2025
How Kunwer Sachdev built one of the inverter industry's first battery-equalization systems for lead-acid banks — years before BMS became standard.
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Lessons from a Power Pioneer: The Kunwer Sachdev Journey
Inverter Man of India Editorial
21 July 2025
Lessons from Kunwer Sachdev's appearance on The Journey Podcast (Episode 39) — the rise, fall and redemption of Su-Kam, told by the man called the Inverter Man…
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Kunwer Sachdev Now on the List of Indian Entrepreneurial Legends
Inverter Man of India Editorial
7 July 2025
Kunwer Sachdev, the Inverter Man of India, on Wikipedia's List of Indian Entrepreneurs — and the marketer's foresight that documented Su-Kam and his own name t…
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Kunwer Sachdev - The power man of India
Inverter Man of India Editorial
4 July 2025
How Kunwer Sachdev rose from selling pens and running a cable-TV business to becoming the 'Power Man of India' — building Su-Kam into a household inverter bran…
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Kunwer Sachdev — The Man of Innovation
Inverter Man of India Editorial
4 July 2025
A profile of Kunwer Sachdev — the man of innovation who founded Su-Kam in 1998 and brought quality-first, cost-saving power-backup and pure sine wave technolog…
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Kunwer Sachdev- Plans to make Sukam an international name
Inverter Man of India Editorial
4 July 2025
How Kunwer Sachdev — the former cable-TV entrepreneur who tackled India's power cuts — set out to take Su-Kam beyond India and build it into an international i…
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How Kunwer Sachdev Sparked a Solar Revolution in India
Inverter Man of India Editorial
27 June 2025
In 2005, when solar energy meant nothing to most Indians, Kunwer Sachdev was building solar hybrid inverter prototypes at Su-Kam — five years before the govern…
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18 Years Later, This Story Still Inspires: When Rashmi Bansal Came to Tell the World About Kunwer Sachdev in her book Connect the Dots
Inverter Man of India Editorial
26 June 2025
How Rashmi Bansal profiled Kunwer Sachdev as 'The Inventor' in her bestseller Connect the Dots — one of three acclaimed books that chronicled the Su-Kam founde…
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When Harsh Pamnani Came Looking for Brands That Boomed — And Found the Man Who Built One from Scratch
Inverter Man of India Editorial
26 June 2025
Author Harsh Pamnani profiled Su-Kam in Booming Brands — and found its heartbeat was founder Kunwer Sachdev, who built the brand from ₹10,000 and then turned t…
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When Porus Munshi Came to Discover the Man Behind Su-Kam: A First-Hand Account of Breakthrough Innovation
Inverter Man of India Editorial
26 June 2025
Author Porus Munshi profiled Su-Kam in Making Breakthrough Innovation Happen — a founder, Kunwer Sachdev, who built an entire industry from ₹10,000 and sheer r…
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First Inverter Designing Challenges in India by Su-Kam
Inverter Man of India Editorial
25 June 2025
How Kunwer Sachdev and Su-Kam designed India's first MOSFET-based inverter — putting inverter and charger on one board, and running a 500W load on a single bat…
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First YouTube Channel in the Solar Industry by Mr. Kunwer Sachdev, Founder Su-Kam
Inverter Man of India Editorial
25 June 2025
In 2009 Kunwer Sachdev made Su-Kam the first Indian inverter and solar company on YouTube — an educational channel that grew to ~109,000 subscribers and still…
Read essay → Kashmir Shikara Branding of Su-Kam
Inverter Man of India Editorial
25 June 2025
How Kunwer Sachdev turned Srinagar's weathered shikaras into a floating billboard for Su-Kam — branded, weather-resistant covers that protected the boats and b…
Read essay → The Curious Case of Kunwer to Kunwwer: A Shift That Left Me Thinking
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
25 June 2025
Kunwer Sachdev — a lifelong man of science — quietly changed the spelling of his name to 'Kunwwer' across every platform. A reflection on what that small shift…
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The First Meeting After His Salary Was Stopped
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
25 June 2025
A former associate's account of meeting Kunwer Sachdev after the NCLT process stripped him of salary, savings and properties — and finding him teaching himself…
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The Heart of India's Inverter Independence: The Legacy of Kunwer Sachdev
Inverter Man of India Editorial
25 June 2025
How Kunwer Sachdev built the R&D backbone that freed India from imported power-backup technology — turning an import-dependent market into one that designs and…
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The Shadow Over Su-Kam: A Founder's Personal Struggles and Their Impact
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
25 June 2025
A former associate's account of how Kunwer Sachdev's personal life — a long public divorce, and later his marriage to Khushboo Sachdev — intertwined with the r…
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The Unseen Hero: How India Lost Its Solar Dream to China
Inverter Man of India Editorial
25 June 2025
By 2015 Kunwer Sachdev had Indian-made grid-tie solar inverters and 100+ installations. Then Su-Kam went bankrupt — and China took the market India had built.
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The Visionary's E-Rickshaw Dream: Kunwer Sachdev's Untold Story
Inverter Man of India Editorial
25 June 2025
Long before e-rickshaws filled Indian streets, Kunwer Sachdev was building one at Su-Kam — the untold story of a visionary electric-vehicle dream ahead of its…
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Walking on Fire – A Training Day to Remember at Su-Kam
Inverter Man of India Editorial
25 June 2025
A firewalk at a Su-Kam training camp where Kunwer Sachdev led from the front — walking barefoot across burning coals so his team could conquer their own fear.
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Witnessing a Visionary: How Kunwer Sachdev Transformed Su-Kam Through Facebook
Inverter Man of India Editorial
25 June 2025
In 2006, when Facebook had only just opened to the public, Kunwer Sachdev built Su-Kam's first Facebook community — uniting employees, dealers and customers.
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Witnessing Dedication and Discipline: My Experience with Kunwer Sachdev, the Yogi Entrepreneur
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
25 June 2025
A former associate's first-hand account of Kunwer Sachdev the yogi — the Su-Kam founder's serious, years-long Yoga practice and how that discipline shaped his…
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Witnessing Kunwer Sachdev's Audacious Dream of Sales Ka Baazigar – A Collaborative Triumph
Inverter Man of India Editorial
25 June 2025
Kunwer Sachdev believed sales was a performance art — so he built 'ETV Sales Ka Baazigar,' a reality show on selling, with Ravi Kishan, that his own team first…
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Witnessing the Marketing Genius of Mr. Kunwer Sachdev at Su-Kam's Dealer Meets
Inverter Man of India Editorial
25 June 2025
How Kunwer Sachdev turned Su-Kam's dealer meets into education-first events — no alcohol, no hard selling, just live demos and trust-building that won distribu…
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Beyond Traditional Marketing: Su-Kam's 'Power on Wheels' Blueprint for Industry Disruption
Inverter Man of India Editorial
24 June 2025
How Kunwer Sachdev's audacious 'Power on Wheels' — a 100 kVA inverter on a truck touring India — turned skeptics into believers and reshaped Su-Kam's marketing.
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The Ambitious Leap and the Lingering Echo: What Might Kunwer Sachdev Feel Today?
Inverter Man of India Editorial
24 June 2025
How Su-Kam's ambitious mid-2000s move into Sealed Maintenance-Free (SMF) battery manufacturing became a defining gamble — and what that bold bet meant for Kunw…
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The Dhaba Visionary: Kunwer Sachdev, the Unconventional Marketing Genius
Inverter Man of India Editorial
24 June 2025
How Kunwer Sachdev turned humble roadside dhabas along India's highways into a low-cost branding network for Su-Kam — and accidentally created a whole new adve…
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The Inverter Man of India: The Story of Kunwer Sachdev and the Birth of the Home UPS
Inverter Man of India Editorial
24 June 2025
How Kunwer Sachdev created and named the Home UPS — a hybrid of the inverter and online UPS — made it affordable, and forced an entire industry to adopt the ca…
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The Legacy of Clean Power: Kunwer Sachdev and the Pure Sinewave Inverter That Changed Everything
Inverter Man of India Editorial
24 June 2025
How Kunwer Sachdev drove Su-Kam from square-wave inverters to India's pure sinewave revolution — via microcontrollers, two rival R&D teams, and field-testing i…
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When the Lights Went Out: The Story of a Man Who Didn't Give Up
Inverter Man of India Editorial
24 June 2025
When Su-Kam shut its doors, dealers, customers and employees were left reeling — the human story of the company's collapse and the resilience of the man who re…
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Su-Kam's Ashes (2016): How Kunwer Sachdev Started This Legacy
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
1 April 2025
After the bankruptcy of Su-Kam, Kunwer Sachdev found himself in a depression that the business press could not cover and the courts could not address. What lif…
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Army Solar Trolley (2013): Kunwer Sachdev Built India's First Mobile Military Solar System
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
1 March 2025
India's Army needed solar power that could move with the troops — deployable, packable, operational anywhere. Nobody had built it for them. Su-Kam spent more t…
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SMD PCB Revolution (2012): Kunwer Sachdev Moved Su-Kam Before the Industry
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
1 February 2025
In the early 2010s, the inverter industry ran on through-hole PCBs — bulky, hand-soldered, slow to manufacture. Kunwer Sachdev saw Surface Mount Device technol…
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Online UPS (2006): Kunwer Sachdev's Gamatronic Gamble in Double-Conversion
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
1 January 2025
In 2006, Kunwer Sachdev partnered with Gamatronic of Israel to manufacture online UPS systems in India — the first time double-conversion technology would be p…
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Su-Kam Branding (1999): Kunwer Sachdev Built India's Top Inverter Name Without a Budget
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
1 December 2024
Su-Kam became India's most recognised inverter brand without a traditional marketing department for most of its growth years. What it had instead was a founder…
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Reliance Investment (2005): How Kunwer Sachdev's $10M Partner Became a Liability
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
1 November 2024
In 2005, Su-Kam became the first inverter company in India to receive institutional investment — a $10 million cheque from Reliance Power Fund. It was the vali…
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Power on Wheels (2007): Kunwer Sachdev's Demo Truck Proved India's Biggest Inverter
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
1 October 2024
When Su-Kam built India's first IGBT-based high-capacity inverter, the problem wasn't the technology — it was that nobody believed it could replace a diesel ge…
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Nigeria Export (2003): Kunwer Sachdev Carried India's First Inverter in a Suitcase
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
1 September 2024
In 2003, Kunwer Sachdev carried an inverter to Nigeria in his hand luggage, got it confiscated at the airport, and watched it installed on a car battery in a L…
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FairyQueen Locomotive Inverter (2004): Kunwer Sachdev's Packaging Disaster
A former associate of Kunwer Sachdev
1 August 2024
In 2004, Kunwer designed an inverter shaped like a locomotive engine — a bold aesthetic gamble for India's bedrooms. The product was perfect. The packaging was…
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