[Startup Bharat] How Karekeba Ventures is enabling access to mentorship, network, and capital to entrepreneurs in Bihar May 6, 2021
Started in 2020, the Patna-based startup is an incubator-cum-angel investment platform that aims to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem in smaller towns. 0 CLAPS
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Entrepreneurship has always been considered a big city phenomenon. While India has a vibrant startup ecosystem, it is often confined to select developed geographies. States like Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and Odisha, and some Tier II, Tier III towns, as well as rural India, lack an entrepreneurial ecosystem, which inhibits their opportunities.
Empowering such startups in Bihar is
This article is part of the opinion column –
Beyond Occident – where we explore a native perspective on the Indian diaspora.
A Harvard Kennedy School academic had recently tweeted saying, “Hindus are sick people of India, it is their religious books who (sic) train the mind.”
A couple of years ago, another faculty at Rutgers University’s history department had tweeted that Mata Sita, in Valmiki’s Ramayana, basically tells Bhagwan Rama that he is a “misogynist pig and uncouth.”
Yet another faculty at the Uppsala University’s Department of Peace and Conflict Research had made a “Gau Mutra” (cow urine, a common taunt against the Hindus by the jihadists) comment in his tweet.