Our story
From needle to ladle
Durga Sweets has never been a chain, a franchise or an investment. It is a family kitchen in Mandi Mohalla that happens to have fed Mysuru for over twenty-five years.
A tailor who chose milk over measure
Subramanya P left a tailoring job in Hosur and came to Mysuru with a single idea: distribute honest, fresh kova. No shop, no signboard — a borrowed cycle, two steel containers, and a route through Mandi Mohalla he learnt by name.
Shopkeepers began asking for more than he could carry. His wife, Smt. Durga, said the answer was not a bigger cycle but a kitchen. In 1999 she lit the first stove on K T Street and set the rules the shop still runs on: pure ghee, brass kadhais, no preservatives, and only as much as can be sold the same day.
That kitchen became a name families now say out of habit — the box that travels to Bengaluru at Deepavali, the tray at a wedding, the packet a grandchild is sent to fetch after school.
The long way here
Twenty-five years, one counter
Hosur, a tailoring table
Subramanya P measured cloth for a living and saved what he could, listening to relatives talk about the sweet trade in Mysuru.
A borrowed cycle and a round of kova
He arrived in Mysuru with one idea — distribute honest, fresh kova — and a route he rode twice a day around Mandi Mohalla.
Smt. Durga opens the kitchen
His wife turned the distribution round into a kitchen on K T Street: brass kadhais, pure ghee, and recipes she wrote down and refused to shortcut.
Bakery and namkeen join the counter
Cream pastries, butter cookies and Mysuru mixture were added — made the same day, sold the same day.
Two generations, one standard
Festival hampers and wedding orders for hundreds of guests leave the shop hand-packed, still weighed on the same counter.
What we still refuse to change
- Pure ghee, no substitutes. If the ghee is not right, the batch does not begin.
- Day-fresh only. Nothing sits on the counter into a second day.
- Hand-weighed, hand-packed. Every hamper is assembled by someone from the shop.
- Recipes as written. Smt. Durga's notebook is still the reference.
