The Navratna Collection Laal Neela Sona ✦ Hara Narangi Gulaabi ✦ Baingani Mitti Ujla ✦ Our Story Philosophy
Navratna Collection — Nine Gems. Nine Millennia. One India.

Clean energy,
Indian soul.

Nine sparkling superfood drinks rooted in nine millennia of Ayurvedic, Siddha, and Unani wisdom. Zero guilt. Zero plastic. Everything India always knew.

Meet the Nine The Ingredients

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✦ Nine millennia of Indian wisdom · ✦ Nine Indian superfoods · ✦ Arthashastra documented · 300 BCE · ✦ 100% aluminium · zero plastic · ✦ Navratna — nine gems · ✦ Light sparkling · 2.0–2.5 vol CO₂ · ✦ Raw sugarcane · root fiber · ✦ Charaka Samhita · Siddha texts · ✦ Ladakh to Kannauj to Sindhudurg · ✦ syn. — everything here was already here ·

The Nine

Why syn.
"Everything here was already here."

Synthesis. Synergy. Syncretism. The name syn. is the acknowledgment that this brand did not invent a single ingredient, a single tradition, or a single piece of knowledge. Every superfood in the Navratna collection was documented in an ancient text before modern science had the tools to explain why it worked. Every cultural story was lived before it was marketed.

What syn. does is translation. From the Charaka Samhita to a hexagonal aluminium can. From the nannari vendor in Mylapore's lanes to a global shelf. From nine millennia of Indian wisdom to the person who just wants something better than Diet Coke.

The Navratna — nine gems of Mughal court and Hindu astrology — are the nine drinks. Each is a gem. Each carries a planetary power. Each has been waiting, in plain sight, inside Indian tradition, for someone to put it in a can.

Meet the Nine
✦ The Celebratory Trio

Gold. Rosé. Pearl.

Three drinks that look like a celebration and drink like an everyday ritual. Available individually and as a gift trio. Every celebration. Every Tuesday.

No. 03 · Gold Champagne

Sona

The gold of Lakshmi's sari, in a can

Bone dry. Lemongrass-forward. Pale gold from a micro-dose of Haldi. Dry lime zest finish. The same feeling as a cold Champagne flute — without the alcohol, without the sugar, without the morning after.

No. 06 · Rosé Champagne

Gulaabi

Gulal and the ghats at dawn

Rose gold blush. Kannauj rose water — 400 years of Mughal attar — and Bihar lychee in its two-week season. Hibiscus vinegar for the wine-like depth. The color of gulal in the air above Varanasi.

No. 09 · Pearlescent White

Ujla

Nine millennia of Tamil Nadu

Nannari — the root without end — in its most beautiful form. Pearlescent, vanilla-earthy, cooling. The street stall drink of old Chennai, bottled for the first time in its history.

Present in every can

The three that hold it all together.

Before any superfood is added, every can shares three foundation ingredients. Not fillers. Each one has a documented history going back millennia and a biological function no synthetic ingredient can replicate.

Raw Sugarcane Juice

The word 'sugar' derives from Sanskrit sharkara — granules. India did not merely grow sugarcane; it gave the concept of sweetness to the world. The Arthashastra, written by Chanakya in the 4th century BCE, documents Ikshu — sugarcane juice — as a classified beverage of the Mauryan court. Cold-pressed, unrefined, it retains trace minerals that refining strips: iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium. The sweetness of the roadside ganna press — everyone in India knows this taste.

"Ikshu rasa nourishes the dhatus, clears the channels, and sustains the body without disturbing the doshas."— Charaka Samhita, Sutrasthana

Chicory Root Inulin

Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine (1025 CE, the foundational text of Unani medicine practiced across Mughal India) called Kasni — chicory — the greatest of all liver medicines. At 1.5g of inulin per can, the fiber physically intercepts the sugarcane's natural sugars and slows their absorption dramatically. No spike. No crash. No debt to tomorrow. We call it root fiber on the label. Not probiotic. Two words. No jargon. The function is real enough to not need marketing language.

"Kasni is the greatest of all liver medicines — it cools the fire of pitta, opens the channels, restores the clarity disease has clouded."— Ibn Sina, Canon of Medicine, 1025 CE

Light Sparkling Water

The Rigveda opens with hymns to fire and water. Jal — water — is the first offering in every Hindu puja. At 2.0–2.5 volumes of CO₂, compared to cola's 3.7, the carbonation in syn. is fine and gentle. It lifts aromatic compounds to the nose and creates effervescence without creating a wall of fizz that blocks flavor. You taste the roselle, the nannari, the lemongrass before the liquid even settles. You can drink the full 250ml without the bloat that aggressive carbonation causes. The carbonation in syn. serves the ingredient. In cola, it disguises the sugar. These are different philosophies, expressed in the same gas.

"Everything here was already here."

From Farm to Can

Traced. Named. Accountable.

Every ingredient in the Navratna collection is sourced from a specific Indian region with a documented agricultural and cultural history.

The Philosophy

How we think about everything.

Three convictions. Not marketing positions — the actual reasons every decision in this brand gets made the way it does.

01

Color from ingredient, never from dye.

Every color in the Navratna collection comes entirely from its hero ingredient. Laal is red because roselle is red. Neela is blue because butterfly pea flower is blue. Ujla is pearlescent because nannari, filtered to crystal clarity in coconut water, reads pearl when held to light. No FD&C dyes. No 'natural flavors.' The color is the proof of the ingredient. If the ingredient changes, the color changes. That is a constraint we embrace because it is honest.

02

Ancient observation. Modern confirmation.

Every ingredient in The Nine was documented in the Charaka Samhita, Sushruta Samhita, Ashtanga Hridayam, or Tamil Siddha texts before modern science had the tools to explain the mechanism. Modern pharmacology has now confirmed the mechanism. We find this remarkable: that 3,000–9,000 years of clinical observation, without mass spectrometry or randomized controlled trials, arrived at essentially correct conclusions. syn. trusts that track record.

03

Zero plastic. 100% aluminium. No compromise.

The hexagonal aluminium cans are BPA-free lined, water-based ink printed, and infinitely recyclable. The kabadiwalla network — India's informal recycling economy — means that every empty syn. can has economic value the moment it leaves your hand. India already had a circular economy for aluminium. We just designed a can worthy of it.

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