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📜 On a glowing festive morning in Mysore (Year 2025), street verandas were decorated with fresh orange marigold garlands, colorful rangolis, and hanging lanterns.
Chapter 07 • Mysore
The Mysore Dasara Diya Stall: Profit, Loss & The Art of Micro-Enterprise
With ₹100 seed capital from Ajji, Dev and Kavya craft 50 golden designer diyas. Kavya prevents a pricing disaster, calculating unit economics for ₹230 net profit!
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📜 On the red-oxide veranda, Kavya and Dev sat at the wooden table with Chintoo, brainstorming ideas for a Diwali enterprise in their notebook.
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📜 Ajji handed a crisp green ₹100 banknote to the excited young entrepreneurs.
Ajji (Kalyani Amma)
"Here is ₹100 seed investment capital for your festival business! But remember the golden business law: Track every single rupee of expense!"
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📜 The children accepted the seed capital with immense excitement and responsibility.
Kavya & Dev
"We promise Ajji! We will track every cost, sell honest handcrafted goods, and earn real net profit!"
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📜 The children arrived at Somanna’s rebuilt pottery workshop in Devaraja Market where hundreds of freshly baked terracotta diyas cooled in the sun.
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📜 Somanna packed 50 clean clay diyas into a woven cane basket.
Somanna
"For our little business pioneers, I will give you my finest raw terracotta diyas at wholesale cost: ₹2 each! 50 diyas for your ₹100 seed note!"
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📜 At the local art supply shop, Kavya carefully selected jars of non-toxic golden acrylic paint, sparkling glitters, and fine brushes for ₹50.
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📜 Kavya also purchased 10 recycled festive craft presentation boxes with golden ribbons for ₹20 to package premium sets of 5.
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📜 The heritage veranda was transformed into a bustling Diwali craft studio with newspaper laid across the red tiles and drying racks lined up.
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📜 Kavya wrote the complete unit cost breakdown on her wooden clipboard.
Kavya
"Look at our Unit Economics: 50 Diyas = ₹100 + Paint/Glitter = ₹50 + Boxes = ₹20 $\rightarrow$ Total Cost = ₹170! That means each finished diya costs us ₹3.40 to produce!"
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📜 With deep concentration, Dev painted intricate gold-and-crimson peacock swirl patterns on the terracotta diyas.
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📜 Kavya delicately glued sparkling tiny mirror beads along the rims, making the diyas gleam like royal palace lamps.
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📜 Chintoo the pup sat faithfully beside the racks with a small smudge of gold paint on his nose, wagging his tail.
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📜 All 50 handcrafted golden designer diyas gleamed brilliantly in the afternoon sun, looking majestic and festive.
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📜 Dev jumped up impulsively with a naive pricing idea.
Dev
"Let’s sell them for ₹3 each! People will buy all 50 in 10 minutes!"
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Inspiration & Educational Attribution
FinJunior interactive quests are adapted and gamified with gratitude and inspiration from Zerodha’s Rupee Tales and Varsity Junior educational initiatives to champion early financial literacy for children across India.