Rajasthan is home to numerous yarn and fabric manufacturers. Among them is BSL Ltd (formerly Bhilwara Silk Mills Ltd), a leading player in these domains with a pan-India presence and a huge export market besides. On our cover this issue, we have featured Nivedan Churiwal, the dynamic managing director of BSL Ltd, who has scripted much of the company’s growth in recent years.
Libraries may have lost their erstwhile appeal, but many still continue to exude a quaint charm. Inspired by Gandhiji and founded in Delhi, in 1915 by Kedar Nath Goenka, a Marwari cloth merchant and freedom fighter, the Marwari Public Library oozes historicity and heritage, apart from being a veritable treasure trove of books, epics, journals, magazines and rare manuscripts.
Newspapers keep us abreast of what’s going on in the world around us, and among the leading newspapers companies in the country is Kolkata-based Sanmarg Group, which publishes Sanmarg Hindi. Read about the leading daily and the group’s many CSR initiatives besides.
Young Turk Abhishek Agarwal possesses all the attributes that set Marwari entrepreneurs apart from others. As founder and CEO of Purple Style Labs (PSL), Agarwal aspires to turn his company into India’s largest luxury fashion house, having made remarkable headway already in a matter of just six years.
In a photo essay, Bhim Singh Hada, a master of realistic painting, offers a glimpse of Rajasthan’s enduring appeal through some of his paintings from the Rajasthan Through My Eyes series.
With all this and more, we bring you yet another interesting issue of MARWAR.
Marwar is a community-based magazine with an emphasis on profiling the best and the brightest in the Marwari community. The magazine reaches the elite in India and abroad who want to read and discover the wonders of all things connected with the community. Thus, the subjects featured have to have the flavour of Marwar and Rajasthan—its culture, lifestyle and traditions. We highlight arts, crafts, music, dance and theatre as well as fashion and food that are connected to the region apart from immensely successful businessmen and businesswomen. In the past, luminaries like Laxmi Mittal, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Indu Jain, Sanjiv Goenka and Rajashree Birla, to name a few, have graced our cover.
