It had been a decade in the making. In 2013, the Mulund-based Narang, then a corporate girl with a high-paying job, started making cheese from her mother’s kitchen over weekends, driven by a simple craving she couldn’t satisfy any other way. By 2015 she was certain this was her calling, quit her job and started Eleftheria with one helper. In 2016, the first chef placed an order. Ten years on, her artisanal cheese, made at a creamery in Bhandup, has won awards consistently, most recently at the Mundial do Queijo do Brasil 2026, where India made its debut at the competition and came home with four medals. “The tweet from the Honourable Prime Minister is one of the greatest moments that my entire team and I will remember for our entire lifetime. It is a phenomenal recognition to have happened for an artisanal craft cheese maker in this country,” said Narang, 39, speaking from her Mulund office. Eleftheria has been winning at the World Cheese Awards since 2021, so international recognition is not new.…