A Nose For Innovation

He was in his fourth year of college at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi when he began looking for ways to help his mother who was suffering from asthma.

- Roshni Majumdar

And that became the impulse behind Nasofilters, the nanotechnology-based company he founded with four others from his alma mater. Using technology to tackle air pollution, the company manufactures products that range from nose filters that people can stick up their nostrils (they’re very comfortable) to filters people can attach to their airconditioning units, virtually turning air conditioners into air purifiers. Now, he is taking it a step forward. He is launching nanofibre-layered window nets, a boon for those living in mosquito-ridden cities like De