Sulekha Works Ltd

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Two brothers, freedom fighters, brought it to life so that the leaders of the struggle against the Raj could write with inks that were made in India, by Indians. But we will fail in our duties if we stop here – for the initial resources needed to set up this Swadeshi enterprise was provided by Ambica Charan Maitra, father of founders, who had donated his life’s savings to the cause or their mother Satyabati Devi, who had joined hands with the other women in the house to make the first inks that were initially sold through the network of swadhinota shongramis. The original formula was developed by a famous retired chemist Satish Chandra Dasgupta. It was only in 1936 that Sulekha had shifted its operations to Calcutta, operating out of a rented premises in Bowbazar. The move to the Jadavpur factory – the area that is now called Sulekha happened, much later in 1946, when the entity was forced to relocate due to a zooming demand for inks. In will not be out of place to mention here the fact that those days, Sulekha was everything that every nationalistic enterprise dreamt of being – it was the proud carrier of an enviable legacy; a just and equitable employer; had a near ubiquitous product that was not only the leader of the pack in India apart from having thriving markets in the four corners of the globe, but was also a socially conscious corporate citizen, regarded with respect for its various social and charitable acts, a patron of the arts. It wasn’t after all, that the United Nations asks entities to go to a different continent and help set up factories to transfer their knowledge and expertise, every other day. Sulekha was given that rare honour of establishing ink factories in Africa in 1980s.

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