Amazing :: Duck Back !!

First raincoat inside a British prison, Surendra Mohan Bose a graduate from Berkeley ( Chemistry Stanford , he chose freedom over a career British put him in jail and from inside the Hamirpur jail he saw Indian soldiers marching in rain , no boots , shivering , sick ,dying . The British had brought water proof raincoats from England for their soldiers only because the British Empire thought an Indian life was worth less than a mat on canvas coated . This image burnt into Bose’s mind for ever. Once released he started a lab at Nazarali Lane Kolkata with his three brothers Ajit Mohan Jogendra Mohan and Bishnupadda he started experimenting with rubber and cotton , no factory no machines no investors just chemistry rage and their love for country tropical heat melted the rubber the winter cracked it neighbours laughed the British had Manchester mills where’re these four Bengali brothers they didn’t stop it they grabbed a unique Vulcanisation technique their own secret process they noticed something very beautiful about a duck water never sticks to its feathers it’s just rolls off they called it Duck back process and in 1920, India has it’s own home made water proof affordable raincoat and in 1941 his company born in prison turn over of 40 lacs railway hold-all or the ice pack for fevers , Chinese plastic imports flooded India in 2000 Duckback list mass market the founding family list the control of the company here is the part give you goosebumps . Today