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Rupa was founded and established by brothers PR Agarwala, GP Agarwala and KB Agarwala in 1968 when the erstwhile hosiery market was at a nascent stage and mainly addressed by unorganized players. [ 8 ]
The "Rupa" brand of knit wear owned by the hosiery company Rupa & Company Ltd. founded by Prahlad Rai Agarwala along with Ghanshyam Prasad Agarwala and Kunj Bihari Agarwal in 1968 is one of India's largest knitwear brand. [1] [2] In 1962, Prahlad Rai Agarwala sett up Binod Hosiery, however it proved to be unsuccessful. In 1968, Rupa was born .
Agrawal is married to Vineeta Agarwala, [26] general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, where she focuses on investments in biotech and health tech. [27] They have two children, [28] and reside in San Francisco.
In 1967, the business suffered a series of losses, leaving the Goenka family at a net deficit of ₹ 600,000 (equivalent to ₹ 32 million or US$370,000 in 2023). Between 1967–68, the Goenkas' connections in the Food Corporation of India (FCI) helped the family secure not only a deal to supply it with polished pulses and cleaned barley but also a later contract for storage of food grains.
Maneesh Agrawala was born to computer-science professor Ashok Agrawala from the University of Maryland. [2] He attended the Science, Mathematics, and Computer Science Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD, where he was part of a team (including Howard Gobioff) that won a supercomputer in the 1988 SuperQuest competition. [3]
Jyoti Prasad Agarwala (17 June 1903 – 17 January 1951) was a noted Indian playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker from Assam. He was deeply revered for his creative vision and output and is popularly called the Rupkonwar of Assamese culture.
Joymoti is a 1935 Indian film widely considered to be the first Assamese film ever made. Based on Lakshminath Bezbaroa's play about the 17th-century Ahom princess Joymoti Konwari, the film was produced and directed by the noted Assamese poet, author, and film-maker Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, and starred Aideu Handique and acclaimed stage actor and playwright Phani Sarma.
The origins of Assamese cinema can be traced back to Rupkonwar Jyotiprasad Agarwala, who was also a noted poet, playwright, composer and freedom fighter. He was instrumental in the production of the first Assamese Film Joymati in 1935, [7] under the banner of Chitralekha Movietone. Aideu Handique was the heroine of this movie.