For many people in Chennai, the daily commute to work is mundane, filled with the background noise of honking horns and endless scrolling on phones. But for Gayathri K.K., an IT engineer working at an MNC in Chennai, the long three-hour journey from Ambattur to Sholinganallur, back and forth, became the loom on which she would weave a brand-new passion.

“Three to four hours on the road every day, it felt like an eternity where I didn’t know what to do with myself. And back in 2017, saree reselling was the trend,” recalls Gayathri.