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Mother’s Recipe gives pickles a wellness twist with ‘Hearty Roots’ launch
MUMBAI: In a zesty move that marries ancient wisdom with modern wellness, Mother’s Recipe has rolled out Hearty Roots– a bold, Ayurveda-inspired range of pickles that’s high on flavour and low on guilt. With zero oil, superfoods like ashwagandha, moringa, flax seeds, and jaggery, this isn’t your grandma’s pickle or maybe it is, but with a clean-label makeover.
Touted as India’s first healthy pickle range, Hearty Roots taps into the booming Rs 10,352 crore health and wellness foods segment, growing at 10 per cent a year, and is aimed squarely at millennials and health-aware consumers craving clean eating without killing their taste buds.
From lime pickle that’s completely oil-free to mango with ashwagandha (for stress-busting snacking), garlic with moringa (a real antioxidant punch), and even a bittersweet karela twist (blood sugar, be warned), the line-up is designed to spice up the wellness aisle.
Each jar is sun-cured, fermented the old-fashioned way, and free of artificial nasties. It’s healthy with heritage and attitude.
Desai Foods executive director Sanjana Desai and the force behind the launch, shared, “Every household has grown up with the familiar taste of pickles, passed down with love through generations. With Hearty Roots, we are holding on to that emotion while responding to how food habits are evolving today. This brand reflects a conscious step forward – making wellness accessible through ingredients that are time-tested and purposeful. Hearty Roots is rooted in our culture, created for those who seek flavour, function and familiarity on every plate.”
Currently available in Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Delhi, and Hyderabad via Zepto, Swiggy Instamart, Amazon Fresh, Bigbasket, and www.mothersrecipe.com, Hearty Roots is all set to pop open in more cities and select specialty stores soon.
Because let’s face it, no salad ever sparked a memory like a good old pickle can.
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Samsung certifies 1,000 Maharashtra students in AI and coding
The South Korean electronics giant marks its first large-scale skilling push in the state, with women making up nearly half the national programme’s enrolment
PUNE: Samsung has put 1,000 students in Maharashtra through a certified training programme in artificial intelligence and coding, the largest such drive the South Korean electronics company has run in the state and a signal that corporate India’s skilling ambitions are moving well beyond the boardroom brochure.
The certifications were awarded under Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme, which launched in India in 2022 with the stated aim of democratising access to future-technology education. The 1,000 graduates were drawn from four institutions: 127 from Savitribai Phule Pune University, 373 from Pimpri Chinchwad University, 250 from D.Y. Patil University’s Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology and 250 from Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. All completed training in either AI or coding and programming, the two disciplines Samsung has identified as the critical pillars of the digital economy.
The programme does not stop at technical training. Soft-skills development and career-readiness modules are baked into the curriculum, a deliberate attempt to close the gap between what universities teach and what employers actually want.
“India’s digital growth story will ultimately be shaped by the quality of its talent pipeline,” said Shubham Mukherjee, head of CSR and corporate communications at Samsung Southwest Asia. “As technologies like AI move from the periphery to the core of industries, skilling must evolve from basic training to building real-world capability. This milestone in Maharashtra reflects how industry and academia can come together to create a future-ready workforce that is both globally competitive and locally relevant.”
The Maharashtra drive sits within a rapidly scaling national effort. Samsung Innovation Campus trained 20,000 young people across India in 2025, hitting its stated target for the year. Women account for 48 per cent of national enrolments, a figure the company cites as evidence of its push for an inclusive technology ecosystem. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Samsung, which is marking 30 years in India this year, runs SIC alongside two other initiatives, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and Samsung DOST, as part of a broader effort to build what it calls a generation of innovators with both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to thrive in a fast-moving digital world.
A thousand certified students is a tidy headline. Whether they find jobs that match their new skills is the harder question, and the one that will ultimately determine whether corporate skilling programmes like this one are genuine pipelines or well-photographed gestures.
