One step at a time: Khadim reinvents itself for tomorrow

AT ONE POINT in his childhood, Rittick Roy Burman had turned his bedroom into a mini shoe-house! Pairs picked up randomly, with designs and textures that he fell for, would make their way home and quietly disappear under his bed. The goal: to study each one of them — the curve of the sole, the feel of the material, the stitching on the sides, things that would later become prerequisites of his job.

Eventually, his mother intervened. The inventory would be cleared out once a year, but Burman’s instinct remained. Years later, that same instinct would shape how Khadim sees product, pricing, and survival in an increasingly competitive domestic footwear market.