Our story
It started because someone else made it badly.
This family has been making dresses for deities since Saurabh’s father’s time. Deepika grew up around the work — the cutting, the sizing, the finishing, all of it happening in the house.
Then a batch was given out to a tailor and came back badly made. Mansi Agarwal refused it and made them herself. They were so much better that the orders came — more than one pair of hands could take, split between her and the tailors she trained.
It happened again years later. A dress ordered from the market arrived with poor lining and cloth stiff enough to prick the deity. Same conclusion, second time: if it is going to be right, we make it ourselves. That is why we do not take open commissions — you choose from what we make, and what we make, we make properly.
We believe there is life in them. So nothing stiff, and nothing that pricks.
Why “Deepika”
Everyone assumes it is a person’s name. It is a name of the Devi — and it is the name our father gave his first business. We kept it so our parents’ thinking stays alive in this one.
Why now
Homes are smaller and days are busier. The mandir is still there, and most of us were never actually taught how to set one properly — not for lack of care, just for lack of anyone showing us. Families started asking us to keep the things at our place because they did not want to travel to the market, and it turned into everything under one roof.
