Where it began

In the early 1990s, India had a power problem. Outages were constant, reliable backup didn’t exist for ordinary people, and nobody was solving it at scale. I started Su-Kam from a garage in Delhi with no roadmap, no investors, and no guarantee of success — just a conviction that this problem needed to be solved.

What followed was 25 years of building something that had never existed in India before. We filed 70+ patents. We built factories. We expanded to 90 countries. At our peak, 5,000 people worked for Su-Kam, and we were the #1 power backup brand in India. I became known as the man who lit up India.

The chapter nobody plans for

Then came the disputes. Legal battles I did not start, factories that were sealed, and a public collapse that played out in newspapers across India. I lost the company I had built with my hands. Everything I had created was taken from the table.

Most people would have stopped there. I didn’t. Not because I had a plan — I didn’t. But because stopping was never something I knew how to do. The refusal to stop is not a strategy. It is a character trait. And in those years, it was all I had.

What I do now

Today I run three things in parallel. Su-vastika continues the work in power systems and IoT. Kunwwer.ai builds software tools for running companies — from small teams to large corporates. And I mentor founders and speak inside mid-size companies, running sessions that employees say change how they see their work — and their lives.

I’ve invested in 3 AI companies. I meet founders regularly. My first question is never about funding — it’s about what they’ve actually built, down to the tiniest detail. Funding is the last thing I think about. Understanding the work is the first.

The sessions I run inside companies — without founders in the room — start with one line that always surprises people: you are not working for your company. You are working for yourself. From that moment, the conversation changes.