Desi Disruptors

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What makes a balm feel like a mother's touch? How did a packet of noodles become India's comfort food? How did a brand name become synonymous with a cure for a cold? And why do some brands create categories while others merely compete? Desi Disruptors is not a book about marketing jargon, boardroom presentations or boring management classroom lessons. This is a lively, insight-driven account of how some of India's most iconic brands-Vicks, Maggi, Whisper, Frooti, Tanishq, Jockey, Thums Up, Lenskart, and more - rewired consumer behaviour and created entire markets just by gauging what people felt and needed even before they themselves knew it. Whisper didn't just sell sanitary pads but broke a cultural taboo around menstruation; Big Bazaar elevated the kirana store model to another level; Frooti converted our obsession with mangoes into an irresistible thirst-quencher; Jockey pulled