Do you believe in destiny?

I don’t. But when I look back, I get tons of questions!

I’m Sathishkumar Muthusamy, your storyteller today.

It was 2015. Four students from different places joined the same college, same department. Funny thing is, we were in the same classroom for three full years, but only in the third year did we actually become friends. Somehow, we clicked late.

And our names? Sreenivasan, Manuraj, Sudheesh and yeah, me — Sathish.

We weren’t the usual gang who roamed around or partied together. We were the kind who sat down and discussed how to build real things.

Placement drives, business ideas, brand building, scaling up — that kinda stuff.

After countless conversations, we started our first “business” — a small coffee stall. We sold ice creams, milkshakes, and bakery items at a college event. This was during our third year. We had a gang of 9–10 people who came together for it.

Eventually, the business flopped.

And just like a large pizza becoming a small one, we were left with only four of us.

But we didn’t stop. We kept talking — What next? What can we build? How do we scale?

We were all amateurs, just throwing around ideas and figuring things out.

And you know how life works — you get what you look for, right?

We got our first real order. The Coimbatore District Court was celebrating its 50th year or something, and they needed custom T-shirts. Sreenivasan’s father works at the same Court and he trusted us to make the T-shirts for the event.

Wow! 500+ pieces!

We bagged the order. We were thrilled. We took it up.

That’s when I approached my uncle — my mentor — who runs a t-shirt export house in Tirupur.

We explained the whole order to him. Told him it’s a huge one. He smiled. We were so pumped.

He agreed to manufacture the t-shirts for us.

Only later did we realise — in Tirupur, 500 pieces isn’t even an order. It’s just a sample quantity.

But he didn’t say no. He made it for us.

And then it happened. We delivered the order. We got paid. We had real money in our hands.

Small order. Small profit. But hey — profit is profit, boss!

For boys who lived on tea, ice creams, and ₹10 snacks — what’s small, what’s big? It was a win!

More than that, we became a team. We became a business. Not just college boys doing timepass — we were entrepreneurs now.

We created our first website. I still remember that evening.

We bought our domain: www.varthagaminternational.store I built the site on WordPress. That’s when we started looking like a real company to the world.

Then life happened.

We had placements. Two of us got into TCS and Wipro. One started preparing for bank exams. I didn’t know what to do. Honestly, I hated engineering. I kept exploring different stuff.

Eventually, I landed in marketing. Got placed in a small agency in Coimbatore. Learned SEO — purely out of interest.

I applied that SEO on our own website. It worked. Real people started visiting our site.

And because of that website and SEO — I got placed in Zoho.

Zoho changed everything.

Good salary. Good life. Amazing food. AC everywhere. Play zones. Job security. No random layoffs.

But then, one fine Wednesday afternoon, over a full non-veg feast, while everyone was smiling ear to ear — I couldn’t.

A question hit me: Why are they giving us all this?

I couldn’t smile. I felt like we were a bunch of goats grazing happily — without even asking why.

Am I a goat? Hell no.

We got on a call.

I told my partners, “If you’re ready, I’ll quit and come.”

They said yes.

Boom. I quit.

No TCS and Wipro anymore.

We landed in Tirupur. Tirupur gave us a chance.

While the website started pulling in quality leads, Sreenivasan and Manuraj started converting them. We were confident. We were ready.

Even before we came to Tirupur, we got our first order worth more than a lakh from a brand called Metanolife.

We started our first factory in 2019 — just 900 sq.ft.

Things were going well. But something still felt incomplete.

Then came the missing slice of our pizza — my brother joined us in 2020 to take care of production.

That same year, we expanded to a 7,500 sq.ft factory.

By 2022, we crossed ₹7 crore in revenue.

And in 2022–2023, four of us got married 😄

Machines were growing. Orders were flowing. And the dream? It was evolving.

Now in 2025, on May 14th, we’ve moved into our new 14,000 sq.ft factory.

In the last 6 years, we’ve been manufacturing premium quality apparel — T-shirts, Polos, Hoodies, Joggers, Sweatshirts, Track Pants — you name it.

Only premium. Only quality. That’s what we stand for.

And we’re just getting started.

We’ll keep innovating. We’ll keep improving.

And yes — we’ll build one of the largest companies in the world.

But not just for us.

We want to build a community of entrepreneurs.

We’ve started the movement. Let’s grow together.