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Swarajshop, a leading manufacturer and retailer of handcrafted, unique, and extraordinary imitation jewellery all over India and internationally, has recently unveiled a whole new collection of ethnic wear jewellery and sarees on its ecommerce market platform  swarajshop.com .  Speaking to the media at the launch event was the industry's thought leader, Mr Mangesh Shinde. The Founder & Director of Swarajshop said, "Our brand is offering artificial ethnic jewellery pieces for more than 10 years now. Whether instore or on online platforms, our beautiful range of jewellery and saree are befitting for every occasion. With a target to cater every age group of people with beautiful graceful jewelleries and traditional wear, the company envisions to become the most visited online women-centric marketplace. To achieve that, the team is constantly adding various new designs and patterns in its bucket as per customer feedback." By unveiling this exclusive collection ...

Chinu Kala started a jewelery brand with an investment of Rs 3 lakh. Her business called, Rubans Accessories, now clocks a turnover of Rs 40 crore. After a dispute with her father, Chinu Kala fled home at the age of 15 with only Rs 300 and a bag of clothes. She stayed at a train station for the first night. Later, she worked as a salesgirl, earning Rs 20 per day, and eventually developed Rubans Accessories, a Rs 40 crore turnover fashion jewellery firm. Her jewellery brand, which began in 2014 as a 36-square-foot kiosk in a Bengaluru mall and had grown to five locations with a turnover of Rs 3.34 crore by 2018, became an online brand during the Covid lockdown and had spectacular growth. "So far, we've sold one million items of accessories," says Chinu, who has come a long way from her days as a salesgirl in Mumbai, where she shared a hostel with 25 other women. She now lives with her husband and 10-year-old daughter in a luxury 5,000-square-foot Bengalu...