EVANNI
Born in the lanes
of Chandni Chowk
Long before Evanni had a name, it had a smell — the warm, metallic breath of molten gold, the sharp sweetness of marigold garlands, the woodsmoke threading through centuries-old alleyways. This was Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi’s moonlit bazaar, where jewellery was never merely ornament. It was language.
Aman Goyal grew up watching his grandfather’s hands move over a karigari bench in the oldest jewellery lane in Dariba Kalan. Every morning his grandfather would say, “Sone mein sirf dhatu nahi hoti, beta — isme koi ki yaad hoti hai.” In gold, there is not just metal, son — there is someone’s memory. Those words never left Aman.
In 2011, Aman and his wife Abhilasha — Abhi to everyone who loves her — pooled their savings, rented a small workshop two lanes off Dariba Kalan, and registered a name that was half her, half the old Mughal word for radiance: Evanni. They didn’t set out to build a brand. They set out to make something true.
Two people.
Aman Goyal
Craft Director & Co-Founder
Aman is the son of Chandni Chowk. He studied gemology in Jaipur and trained under master karigar Ustad Rafiq Ahmed for three years before his hands were trusted to touch gold unsupervised. He speaks of kundan as others speak of music — with reverence, with precision, with the understanding that a single misplaced stone can break an entire harmony. At Evanni, Aman oversees every piece from the wax model to the final polish. He has never once approved a piece that he would not place on Abhi's wrist himself.
Abhilasha Goyal
Creative Director & Co-Founder
Abhi arrived at jewellery through a door she wasn’t expecting. She studied psychology, and what stayed with her wasn’t the theory but the wonder underneath it — why we reach for a particular piece on a difficult morning, why beauty feels less like something you see and more like something you remember. Aman speaks the language of metal. Abhi speaks the language of the person who will one day wear it. Together, they are fluent in something neither could speak alone.
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