Sona Story

Trace the history of any old industrialist family in India and the origins inevitably lie in textiles. It was no different for C. Valliappa whose grandfather was known as the Textile King of the South. Valliappa inherited both the textile tradition and Gandhian values of his forebear. But in the late 1990s, labour unrest and a combination of unfortunate happenings resulted in the sinking of fortun...