Electronics For You — one of India’s most respected electronics and technology publications — ran a deeply personal “My Story” feature with Kunwer Sachdev, founder and Managing Director of Su-Kam Power Systems. The headline alone says everything about the man: “I’m Struggling to Be Successful. I’m Struggling kunwer Sachdev”
This is not the language of someone who built India’s largest inverter company. It is the language of someone who never stopped pushing — someone for whom success was never a destination but a direction.
The Man Who Lit Up Millions of Homes
At a time when power outages were at their peak across India and branded inverter manufacturers had all but disappeared — Videocon had stopped making them, others had exited — Kunwer Sachdev and Su-Kam stepped in. Su-Kam became the only credible, branded inverter company serving Indian homes. Millions of households that had never known uninterrupted power found it through Su-Kam.
That is the scale of what was built. And yet, speaking to Electronics For You, Kunwer Sachdev said he was still struggling to be successful.
Thinking Big — A Philosophy, Not a Strategy
In this feature, Sachdev shares how his story is meant to inspire people to think big and realise that anything is possible in life. His own journey — from selling pens on buses to pay school fees, to building a global power solutions brand — is proof that ambition untempered by background can change everything.
The willingness to say “I am still struggling” — even from the peak of success — is precisely what made him credible to the engineers, entrepreneurs, and dreamers who followed his work in the pages of EFY.
