The race to create a world-class ventilator to combat Covid-19
New Delhi– A raging pandemic, a dearth of life-saving equipment, and 90 days to manufacture a world-class ventilator.
On March 24, 2020, a nationwide lockdown was imposed in India in the wake of a formidable adversary, the Covid-19 pandemic. With the number of cases increasing exponentially, hospitals were faced with a dangerous shortage of life-saving equipment and personnel.
In response to the imminent crisis, Amitabha Bandyopadhyay and Srikant Sastri formed the IIT Kanpur Ventilator Consortium as a task force to assist a young startup, Nocca Robotics, in building affordable high-quality ventilators for India’s cash-strapped hospitals.
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Curious case of Aravind Adiga as a famous literary recluse: Booker-winning author is anomaly in publishing world In an inversion of the mantra that marketing is a necessary evil, the bane of an author’s existence that ultimately has its reward, Adiga refuses to do too much publicity around his books, often to the chagrin of his publishers. Nawaid Anjum February 16, 2021 11:04:58 IST Aravind Adiga. Photo by Fernando Morales
Aravind Adiga, the Booker Prize-winning author of
The White Tiger (2008), has always struck me as India’s most famous literary recluse, an anomaly in the modern publishing world where the order of the day seems to be: Publicise
Mihir Dalal s Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story wins 2020 Gaja Capital Business Book Prize firstpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from firstpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mihir Dalal’s candid Flipkart story ‘Big Billion Startup’ wins Gaja Capital Business Book Prize
The prize, established by Gaja Capital in 2019, carries an award of Rs 15 lakh for the winner. Abhishek Chinnappa/Reuters
Mihir Dalal, a business journalist with
Mint newspaper has won the Rs 15-lakh Gaja Capital Business Book Prize for his first book
Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story. The book offers a rare behind the scenes look at not only the success, dip, and rise of the first major online retailer in India, but also captures, importantly, the often tense relationships between the investors and the management, which at many points overshadowed the company’s commercial success and culminated in the spectacular departure of the founders.