The story behind every sip.

Karha is a Mumbai-born Ayurvedic drinks company that bridges five generations of family wisdom with peer-reviewed phytochemistry. We make honest, potent formulations you can trace from soil to sip.

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Our Founders

Our grandmother Savitri never called it Ayurveda. She called it common sense — boil the right leaves, at the right time, for the right person. We started Karha to honour that intuition, but also to prove it. Every formula we ship has a Certificate of Analysis. Every claim we make links back to a published study. That is what she would have wanted: trust you can verify.

We built Karha for the curious sceptic — people who want the wisdom of tradition and the rigour of science in the same cup.

Rohan & Ananya

Co-founders, Karha Ayurvedic
Our Journey
1902

First recorded family kadha recipe in Ratnagiri, handwritten in a cloth-bound journal by great-grandmother Kamala.

1968

Grandmother Savitri begins distributing fresh kadha to neighbours during monsoon season.

2019

Rohan studies phytochemistry at IIT Bombay, quantifying the active compounds in his family’s recipes.

2021

Ananya’s Ayush-certified formulations pass GMP audit.

2023

Karha soft-launches at 3 Mumbai farmers markets.

2024

AYUSH manufacturing license MH/2024/0019 granted.

2025

Karha Lab beta launched online.

2026

24-herb formulary complete; national shipping begins.

The Team
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Dr. Priya Nair

Head of Science

PhD Pharmacognosy, 12 years in Ayurvedic phytochemistry. Leads our assay and clinical evidence programme.

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Vikram Deshmukh

Head of Farms

Third-generation organic farmer from Nashik. Manages our network of 14 partner farms across Western Ghats.

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Leela Iyer

Design & Brand

Former NID faculty. Shapes the visual language of Karha, from bottle labels to the digital experience.

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Kabir Singh

Engineering

Full-stack engineer, ex-Razorpay. Builds the Karha Lab customiser and supply-chain tooling.

Production facility
Production

From raw herb to sealed bottle in 48 hours

Our Thane facility is AYUSH GMP-certified and processes herbs in climate-controlled, stainless-steel environments. Every batch undergoes HPLC assay, heavy-metal screening, and microbial limits testing before a Certificate of Analysis is published.

8,000 sq ftGMP-certified facility
48-hourbatch production cycle
72-hourcold-brew extraction