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It all started with hummus. When Manal Kahi moved from Lebanon to New York to start a degree at Columbia, she loved exploring the myriad cuisines on offer in the sprawling metropolis, but couldn t find a decent pot of the classic chickpea and garlic dip for love nor money. After she started whipping up batches of hummus using a recipe handed down by her Syrian grandmother - batches that were eagerly devoured by friends - Kahi thought she might have spotted a gap in the market. This was in 2013, says Kahi, in the midst of the refugee crisis back home in Lebanon, [which] was starting to reach the shores of Europe. So when we started thinking of who could bring better hummus to New York, it kind of made sense to think of Syrian refugees being resettled here.
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With 1.93 million subscribers on her YouTube channel, finance content creator Rachana Ranade is currently raking in revenues worth crores of rupees, as per estimates, via a multipronged model. Her next target is hitting the two million subscriber mark and selling her own merchandised goods. Inside the journey of this spunky first-generation entrepreneur for whom teaching is her first love.
Her content delivery is coherent and the style is lucid. She understands her audience and can drive her point home. A lecturer by profession and a social-media sensation, Rachana Ranade uploaded her video on “Basics of Stock Market” on YouTube in 2019 when a few of her students were not able to attend the class. The video went viral and changed her life for good. While it was not her first video, it did open up the avenues for recognition,