
Our story
Every good thing in our lives came in halves.
Half a samosa at the school canteen. Half the rent in our first Bangalore flat. Half a cab home at 1 a.m., split three ways because somebody always “forgot” their wallet.
Then life got busy. Jobs, cities, promotions, calendar invites. The halves quietly stopped. Friends turned into a WhatsApp group that only wakes up for birthdays, and “we should meet soon” became the most repeated lie in our phones.
We noticed it one evening at IIM Indore, three tired people splitting one plate of poha between classes. Somebody said it felt like school. Somebody else said they hadn’t spoken to their school best friend in two years. Nobody said anything for a while.
So we built a brand around the people who held the other half of our stories.
Every Asanoha pack comes as two. Two tins that fit together, or two syringes in one sleeve. Both halves are yours, on your own prescription. The friendship is in everything around it: the slam book, the stories and the nudge to call the friend you keep meaning to call. We say it the way we said it in school: aadha tera, aadha mera.
Three places
Why beach, mountain and rooftop?

The beach, low dose
The Goa plan every friend group makes. Ours finally happened. It is the gentle one, where most people start.

The mountain, medium dose
The trek you said “next year” to, five years running. One step up, when your practitioner says so.

The rooftop, high dose
The 2 a.m. conversation on the terrace that fixed nothing and helped everything. Our strongest, only on prescription.
The name
Asanoha, and a leaf split in two.
Asanoha is an old Japanese hemp-leaf pattern that stands for growing straight and strong. Vijaya is what Ayurveda has called the cannabis leaf for centuries. Our logo holds both: a Vijaya leaf split down the middle, clay on one side and gold on the other, inside a ring of haldi petals, with a little Thai ribbon that says sabai sabai, which roughly means “take it easy, you’re fine.”
Underneath it is written आयुर्वेद, drawn the Thai way, because we couldn’t pick one favourite trip.
We are not trying to be the loudest brand on your shelf. We just want to be the reason you call someone tonight.
Adarsh, Joseph and Soumyadev