Meet Somrwita

At five, she began school at Loreto Day School, Sealdah. Under the watchful eye of S. M. Cyril, an Irish nun and educationist who was then principal, her formative years were gently but firmly shaped. English soon became her favourite subject, and she was drawn to philanthropic activities with a seriousness unusual for her age.

For her higher secondary years she moved to Patha Bhavan, a school whose ethos and culture could not have been more different from Loreto’s. The transition was not easy at first, but soon friendships and collaborations took root. It was here that she co-founded a literary wall magazine with her peers — her first taste of building something collective from scratch.

University beckoned next. She joined Jadavpur University to read Economics, a subject that sharpened her analytical mind while leaving room for her creative instincts. At just 19 she co-founded her first business venture, a bold step that hinted at the entrepreneurial streak to come.

On graduating she headed to XLRI, Jamshedpur, to enrol in the Post Graduate Programme in Entrepreneurship Management. Surrounded by classmates who were themselves entrepreneurs or aspiring to be, she found deep motivation. Her professors championed her entrepreneurial spirit, which leaned instinctively towards social inclusion. It was at XLRI that she first encountered the Joy of Giving movement — an experience that would stay with her long after the classroom.

Even as her business ideas took shape, she found herself drawn back to the classroom. She returned to academia to pursue a Master of Business Administration in Marketing from Calcutta University, graduating as the university topper — a recognition that spoke to both her discipline and her instinct for strategy.

From there her life took on a broader canvas. Over the years she worked and lived across continents, shaping businesses and absorbing cultures far from the city of her birth. Each move added another layer to her understanding of markets and people, of entrepreneurship not just as commerce but as a vehicle for inclusion and change.

In 2024 she returned to academia yet again, this time to study for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln. She had written since the age of six and now wanted to sharpen her craft. Today she lives in Lincoln, United Kingdom, carrying forward both her entrepreneurial and her creative journeys — two strands of a life shaped by curiosity, discipline and an instinct for building.