Tejasv Upadhyay
FounderTejasv leads the family's rice business, Mohinisagar Agro Exim, and brings its discipline of quality and fair dealing to Mohinisagar Ventures India.
Our story
From the sands of Rajasthan to the fields of Karnal
मोहिनीसागर की ओर सेFrom the House of Mohinisagar
This is the story of a family from Ratangarh, in Rajasthan's Churu district, that has lived by rice since 1995, made Karnal its home in 2021, and is now sharing its kitchen and its customs of welcome with everyone who walks through its door.
Chapter one · Ratangarh, Churu
Where a guest is a blessing
राजस्थान में मेहमान को भगवान का रूप माना जाता है।
Our family comes from Ratangarh, a town in Churu district on the edge of the Thar. In the desert nothing is wasted and everything is shared. Ker and sangri are picked from desert trees and dried in the sun. Bajra grows where wheat will not. And when a guest arrives, the family brings out its best, then insists on a second helping. We grew up inside this culture of manuhaar.
Chapter two · The dal-baati days
The taste we grew up with
In our house, dal-baati was never ordered from outside. It was an occasion. The dough was kneaded with ghee, the baatis were baked slowly until they cracked open, and the panchmel dal simmered for hours. Then the whole family sat down together. The baatis were broken by hand and soaked in hot ghee, and the elders made sure that nobody, ever, stopped at one.
थोड़ो और लो सा। यही आवाज़ हमारे बचपन की सबसे मीठी याद है।
Every recipe at Padharo Sa comes from that family kitchen.
Chapter three · Rice, since 1995
The grain taught us quality
In 1995 the family began working in rice. It was hard, honest work, and it taught us to judge basmati by its length and aroma, and people by whether they keep their word.
In 2021 we made Karnal our home, the heart of India's basmati country. Today Mohinisagar Agro Exim runs our rice plant on Nadana Road, Taraori, supplying basmati and non-basmati rice to buyers in India and overseas.
अनाज के कारोबार ने हमें एक बात सिखाई: अच्छी सामग्री से ही अच्छा स्वाद बनता है।
Chapter four · Padharo Sa
Bringing the welcome to the table
Karnal gave us a home, but some tastes only come from Ratangarh. So Tejasv Upadhyay and Radhika Sharma founded Mohinisagar Ventures India to share them. Its first restaurant, Padharo Sa, opens in Sector 6, Karnal: a pure vegetarian Rajasthani kitchen cooking our family's own recipes, where every guest hears the words “थोड़ो और लो सा”, have a little more.
Chapter five · Tomorrow
A house with many doors
Padharo Sa is the first door. Behind it we see banquets and catering for family celebrations, heritage stays with haveli courtyards, and Rajasthani foods that families can take home. Each will carry the same two words at the entrance.
मोहिनीMohini Devi
सागरSagar Mal Sharma
मोहिनीसागरMohinisagar
The name we carry
Our name is our inheritance
Mohinisagar joins the names of our forefathers, Mohini Devi and Sagar Mal Sharma.
Every signboard, every rice bag and every thali that carries the name also carries their blessing, and the standards they set for the family. It is a name we have to live up to every day.
The people behind Mohinisagar
Meet the founders
Radhika Sharma
FounderRadhika carries the family's kitchen and its customs of welcome into Padharo Sa, so that every guest is served the way the family serves its own.
Founder photos coming soon.
राजस्थान की मिट्टी, करनाल का घरRooted in Rajasthan, at home in Karnal.The Mohinisagar Family
Why we exist
Mission, vision & promise
Our mission
To serve honest, authentic Indian food and hospitality with the warmth of a Rajasthani home, at prices families can enjoy often.
Our vision
To become North India's most loved name in heritage hospitality, known for one thing: every guest feels at home.
Our promise
You will be welcomed like family, fed like family, and asked to come again.
फेर पधारजो सा!
What we stand for
Our values
मनुहार
Manuhaar
Staff greet every guest with “Padharo Sa”, check on every table and offer the next helping before it is asked for.
असली स्वाद
Real taste
Recipes from Rajasthani homes, spices ground in-house, food cooked fresh every day and served hot.
शुद्धता
Purity
A pure vegetarian kitchen, kept clean and open. Honest ingredients and desi ghee where tradition calls for it.
परिवार
Family
Family-run and family-friendly, with fair prices and a menu for grandparents and grandchildren alike.
A note from the family
खम्मा घणी सा,
When we decided to open a restaurant, we asked ourselves one question. What would make a guest in Karnal feel what we feel when we sit down to dal-baati at home in Ratangarh?
The answer was not only the food. It was the welcome at the door, the patience of slow cooking, and the host who keeps filling your plate long after you say you are full.
Padharo Sa is our attempt to bring that feeling here. Mohinisagar Ventures India is our promise to keep building on it, one guest at a time. We hope you will visit. We hope even more that you will come back.
With warm regards,
Tejasv Upadhyay & Radhika Sharma
on behalf of the Mohinisagar family · मोहिनीसागर परिवार