The Origins

Three friends, a long car drive to Stuttgart, and an idea - all coming together on a fine January day.

Paritosh always wanted to open a lifestyle store, Sandeep was getting interested in ideas around organic food & fair trade, and Kasturi wanted to start a business in handmade paper products. As we talked, we found our interests overlapping. Therein lie the origins of mera | Tierra - our very own fair trade and sustainable lifestyle store.

In March, we spoke about our idea with Archana, who is passionate about applying traditional arts & crafts of India to more modern & contemporary designs. She has been working on her ideas for a while now and we were looking for a designer. We asked her to join in.

A trip to India towards end of March sealed our intentions - we are going to give this a shot! As I write this, we are steps away from registering the business and selecting our first line of products.

To say the least, we are excited!