Success India Magazine on Kunwer Sachdev — from selling pens on the streets of Punjabi Bagh to building a Rs 2,300 crore power-backup company. A study in resilience, ambition, and betting on yourself.
Success India Magazine’s profile opens on the bustling streets of Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh, where a young Kunwer Sachdev once sold pens door-to-door to pay for his own education. That is the same man who today runs a Rs 2,300 crore company in India’s power-backup sector — a distance covered without any inherited business, without formal engineering training, and without a shortcut.
A railway clerk’s son who dreamed bigger than his neighbourhood
Born into a modest family — a railway clerk’s household where every rupee was accounted for — Kunwer’s childhood in Punjabi Bagh was full of the constraints that usually decide a life. But he dreamed past them. Selling pens was not a punchline; it was a first business, and a first education in what customers actually pay for.
From cable TV equipment to inverters
The magazine traces the classic Sachdev pivot: after building a profitable cable-TV equipment business in the 1990s, he chose to walk away from it and jump into the then-underserved power-backup market. Su-Kam was born out of that leap, and grew into the biggest Indian brand in the category — supplying home inverters, UPS systems, and eventually solar equipment across 90+ countries.
“Kunwer’s journey from selling pens to owning a company worth Rs 2,300 crore is nothing short of remarkable.”— Success India Magazine • 26 January 2024
The lesson Success India is really telling
Underneath the numbers, the piece is really about a mindset. Sachdev’s trajectory says three things in one line: an idea is bigger than a degree, a business is bigger than an inheritance, and a founder’s energy — not his balance sheet — is what actually compounds over 25 years.
Kunwer Sachdev: From Selling Pens to Powering Dreams — Success India Magazine →