Hotel Homelyraj was founded, in Kolkata, by Sri M.S.K.Rajasubramanian, in 1965. The hotel was originally known by the name Hotel Raj, but in 1979, it was renamed Hotel Homelyraj to reflect the homely environment that it gave to the clients, a hefty portion of whom had affirmed that it was genuinely a 'home away from home.' Sri M.S.K.Raja, originally from Sivakasi, a flourishing business town in Tamil Nadu, South India had relocated to Kolkata in 1956. The family business in molasses had brought him, along with his father and sibling to Kolkata. The business obliged Sri.Raja to head out to diverse parts of India and stay in hotels. Being a thrifty man, he would generally choose to stay in budget hotels. His regular ventures additionally provided him a profound understanding into the lodging and restaurant business, the inadequacies of budget hotels in distinctive parts of India and the requirement for good budget hotels in India. He felt there was a decent open door in the hotel business. Against his father's wishes, Sri.Raja left the family business and entered into the hotel business with his own investment funds, by taking a full building on rent and getting it reasonably built for a hotel, amidst the post 1962 war period, when the entire economy in West Bengal was reeling under recession.