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Ahmedabad, April 2, 2020: India being the third  largest emerging country for startups in the world after the United States of America and England. According to the Government startup portal, there are 79,783 startups, 563 mentors and 565 incubators are exits in the country. Startups have poised in the Indian business ecosystem. This national lockdown due to novel coronavirus outbreak has impacted a huge loss to the common man to the established business & flourishing industries. World Economists already have predicted the results of the COVID-19 outbreak and signaled vulnerable situations of an economic slowdown. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) industries and startups which are contributing around 30% of India’s GDP will have to start with a new approach. But, we can see this outbreak as multiple opportunities to many startups, if they are able to grab in a pragmatic manner with the right attitude, they will grow like never before. First of all, under this g...

Ahmedabad, March 28 2020: Nature has played a wonderful game with all of us! Within a few days, Nature controlled over all our mischief/misbehavior/wrongdoings. Man created with huge expenses - Roads, transport facilities, bus transportation, railways, airplanes and now all are useless – it cost nothing at all! Having taken the human race hostage for four months, nature indirectly stated, "This earth is the shared property of all creatures; it is not for humans alone." Wherever I am (human) - in USA, in India, in Sudan, in Italy, in China - Whoever I am Christian, Hindu, Muslim or anybody – Whatever my position a Prime Minister or a Big Business Tycoon or Hollywood Hero or a Small Sweeper – I become One Man – I speak one language only - Corona… Nature showed us our place and told us “Do not go against the laws of nature, otherwise, things will not be natural i.e Beside the Point. Nature has united humanity, Nature has united the world. Right now, we are experi...

This is one book I would request all avid book lovers to read. In the 28 th edition of “Connecting Matter” (28CM), our Saturday event at Ahmedabad-based National Institute of Mass Communication and Journalism (NIMCJ), we had invited senior journalist-author Virendra Pandit in December 2017 to tell us all about his latest book, Return of the Infidel , released in New York in September 2017. What really turned out for us was an hour-long enriching and stimulating experience in an ocean of knowledge. In a question-and-answer format, streamed live on Facebook, he spoke at length about the cyclical nature of human history, rise and fall of civilizations and culture. Thank you very much sir for joining in the program. Thanks are also due to my students Amar Thakkar and Shyam Sardhara for managing #Fblive. All I would like to say is that I really felt charged up and marveled at the vast area the book covers. It not only goes into the detailed Indian history with a new pers...