Foodie couple and an online biz delivering sweets, snacks fresh to the door

Mirchi.com serves 20,000 pin codes with a delivery model that promises to bring the delicacies to your door absolutely fresh from across mainland India within 1-3 days

The startup ecosystem has stories galore of entrepreneurs who left cushy jobs to get into businesses they hadn't dipped their fingers into before. But what makes Niraj Mital, now 60, and wife Poornima, 54, stand out is their dive into the online delivery of sweets, snacks and other packaged delectables only because of their love for food, at an age when many others would start planning retirement.

So here's their story. The couple returned to Hyderabad, India after having spent several years in the US, where Niraj had worked as project manager with companies such as IBM and Verizon, among