The Start-Up Summit was delayed by heavy rains. Some of us reached early, some were stuck. And in that unplanned green-room conversation, a thought I had lived by inside Su-Kam for 25 years quietly became a keynote — the one ET EnergyWorld would cover the next morning.
I went to IIM Ahmedabad in March 2017 to deliver the ‘Power-Up with Kunwer Sachdev’ keynote at TiECON. The bigger discovery came in a quiet conversation with the professors before the talk — my Su-Kam story was already being taught to their MBA students. Here’s what that reframed for me.
Nine published books — IIMA, HarperCollins, Springer, Rashmi Bansal, Harsh Pamnani, Disha, ProjectX Digest — have profiled Kunwer Sachdev and Su-Kam Power Systems. Here are the covers, the references, and what each one captured.
From dealers in Lagos and Kabul to solar villages in Gabon and Rwanda, Su-Kam took Made-in-India power to 90+ countries. Kunwer Sachdev on the export journey and why an Indian brand standing on the world stage mattered.
Before Indian businesses used Facebook, Kunwer Sachdev turned it into Su-Kam’s nervous system — connecting factories, R&D and service teams across 70+ countries. The story of an early bet, what was lost, and keeping the heritage alive.
In November 2012 Su-Kam staff uploaded the Technovations deck on SlideShare — 47 slides on Chic plastic inverters, tractor charging, sine wave, Home UPS, telecom, Solar PCU, Brainy, and megawatt projects. Kunwer Sachdev walks each slide.
★ eRevolution 2011 · 24 September 2011 ★ I Gave This Talk at the Marriott Chandigarh.Years Later, Someone Uploaded It
Kunwer Sachdev on India’s 0% Chinese share in inverters — the Su-Kam technologies, patents, and export markets he built — and the honest second chapter after NCLT 2018.
After one evening of AI fixes broke his website, Kunwer Sachdev stopped asking AI to build — and started asking it to think.
The day I stopped asking which AI was the best — and started asking which one understood me. Five tools, five personalities, one founder learning to conduct.