Ridhima Arora is an Indian entrepreneur, author, trained yoga instructor, and nutritionist. He is the founder of Namhya Foods, an Ayurvedic food company.
Wiki/Biography
Ridhima Arora was born on Monday, 28 December 1992 (age 29 years; in 2021) in Jammu. His zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Ridhima Arora childhood photos
He did his schooling at JK Public School and went to Chennai’s Great Lakes Institute of Management to pursue his PGDM in Marketing and Sales. While pursuing post-graduation, Ridhima worked as a project intern at Ramco Systems, Chennai, for about four months.
Ridhima Arora during her convocation
Ridhima was also interested in fashion shows in her college days and did several modeling projects.
Ridhima Arora Photoshoot for Citizen Media Models
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′ 5″
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
Family
Not much is known about his parents. His grandfather was a hakeem (practitioner of traditional ayurveda). He started a small herbal shop in 1937 in Jammu where he sold natural herbs and ayurvedic treatments. Ridhima’s father took over the shop in 1985 and expanded it further.
Ridhima Arora with her father
Ridhima Arora with her mother
Career
Ridhima Arora started her career in May 2015 as Senior Marketing Manager at Lava International Limited, Noida. He worked there for about three years and later, resigned from his post in 2018. Arora later joined Automate International in Gurgaon as Senior Marketing Manager. In 2018, she gave up her corporate career to take care of her sick father. His father was diagnosed with Cirrhosis of the Liver and doctors had declared that he had only 6 months to live. While talking about it in an interview, he said,
My 59-year-old father was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver, and the doctors said there was nothing they could do, because it was getting worse so quickly. They declared that my father only had 6 months to live. When he’s at home, I take the time to make sure he eats clean, locally sourced, nutritious food.”
At that time Ridhima often visited doctors and dieticians to find a cure for her father. He started giving his father traditional immunity boosters like harad ka pani and giloy water. With a combination of allopathic treatment, combined with ayurvedic herbs, and physical exercise in the form of Yoga, helped Ridhima heal her father over months.
It was when Ridhima took care of her father that she realized that there was a lack of understanding of the term ‘nutrition’ even among dietitians. People do not know about the right food and diet that can work wonders for patients and enable them to get rid of their disease completely. He then came up with the idea of combining nutrition with taste and with that concept to bridge the gap between delicious food and health, using Ayurveda, founded Namhya Foods Private Ltd. in 2019. While establishing Namhya Foods he first thought of making antidote- based products. During an interview, while talking about the same, he said,
At first I thought of making an antidote-based product, but after researching, I realized that there are many such products already available in the market. So I put my faith in the preventive food segment.
Ridhima invested Rs. 22 lakh initially in setting up a small manufacturing unit in his family land in Jammu. In their first 6 months of operation, his company was able to sell an inventory of Rs. 5 lakh and earned Rs 1 crore in less than a year. Namhya Foods products are available in retail outlets in Jammu, Delhi and Gujarat. They are also available online on platforms like Flipkart, eBay, Etsy, and the company’s official website. Till 2021, the company has launched eight products which include Heart tea, Kashmiri Kahwa, brain food, and Gond Katira. The product is natural and free of preservatives and harmful substances.
Ridhima Arora with Namhya Foods products
Apart from being the founder of Namhya food, Ridhima also provides nutritional guidance in seminars to children, NGOs and corporates. He also works as a freelancer at Global Changemakers.
Ridhima Arora’s live seminar
Favorite Things
- Travel Destination: Dubai
Facts/Trivia
- Ridhima Arora loves to travel and do adventure sports in her spare time.
Ridhima Arora goes skydiving
- He is very particular about his fitness and visits the gym regularly.
Ridhima Arora in the gym
- Ridhima used to suffer from PCOS. He realized the importance of a healthy diet and lifestyle in 2014 when he was diagnosed with the disease. During an interview, while talking about the same, he said,
I started my journey towards a healthy lifestyle when I gained an incredible amount of weight due to PCOS. In an effort to get fit, I modified my diet. But it is very difficult to cover your desire. While luxurious quinoa and avocado chips pinch the pocket, other parts of the favorite food fare worse because of hidden harmful ingredients that are lost in the marketing communications done on the front of the pack.”
- Ridhima has appeared as a guest on the Young Bites channel to share the benefits of healthy eating and the importance of Ayurveda.
Ridhima Arora as a guest on Young Bites
- In 2021, he was invited to attend the Change Maker Xchange Summit, Asia & Australia.
Ridhima Arora as part of the CXC Summit 2021
- Aryan Mehra, one of his customers, shared on a news channel that his grandfather had benefited from Ridhima’s Ayurvedic Products. His grandfather had a blocked valve in his heart and was advised to eat healthily by the doctor. Speaking about the same, he said,
I came across Namhya Foods on Instagram in April 2020, and I bought ‘Heart Tea’ for my grandfather. After eating it regularly for three months and changing other food habits, his condition improved. The doctor even noted it during the follow-up appointment.”
- He is a follower of Buddhism.
- He considers Oprah Winfrey, singer Michael, Marianne Williamson, Ekhart Tolle as his role models.
- During an interview, Ridhima shared that she was inspired by her mother.
- Ridhima has imparted her valuable insights as a guest speaker on various platforms such as Josh Talks and TEDx.
Ridhima Arora on Josh Talks
- In July 2021, he was invited to the E-Summit at Kalyani Government College of Engineering, West Bengal.
Ridhima Arora as guest speaker
- Before founding Naymha, Ridhima worked at Lava International as a Digital Marketing staff and earned Rs. 27000 per month.
- The first product he launched under Naymha was ‘Heart Tea’ to lower cholesterol levels. The product is priced at Rs. 230 and consists of Arjuna Chhaal which helps in the natural control of cholesterol. In Naymha, the product is priced moderately and the most expensive product is priced at Rs. 450.
- Ridhima has its corporate office in Delhi and works with a team of just seven employees (as of 2021).
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Source: SCHOOL TRANG DAI
