The Agora (or Sundays @THC) 2.0 session, held on 1st November 2015 at The Holy Cafe, Ahmedabad, brought together NextGen Entrepreneurs, Abhishek Doshi (www.gridle.io), Bansari Kamdar (www.thesocialbridge.in), Ritam Bhatnagar (www.wwhere.is), and Sneh Bhavsar (www.oowomaniya.com), on one platform to delve into their entrepreneurial journeys and reflect on the vision of entrepreneurship …
Read More »Does Ahmedabad, the soil of business, lack what it takes to be the entrepreneurial hub of India?
Every place has a unique entrepreneurial flavor and Ahmedabad is no different. Ahmedabad is the epicenter of Gujarat, the western state of India. Gujarat is often referred to as the soil for business and all Gujaratis’ are generally considered to inherently know the language of business. Indeed, Ahmedabad and Gujarat …
Read More »Perspectives on differences between the past and the present entrepreneurial approaches
Lessons from Agora (or Sundays @ THC) on Pursuit of NextGen Entrepreneurs. There has been a long discussion going on over the evolution of entrepreneurship in general and how the present and the upcoming entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial trends are different than those of the past. We asked our panel members …
Read More »Why saying ‘grace’ before eating is not a bad idea?
The norm of praying before meals is wide spread across various religions all over the world. In Christianity, the grace prayers before meals demonstrate gratefulness towards God for the food that has been provided (by Him). In Islam, an acknowledgement in the form of a prayer is said before meals: …
Read More »Five Myths about fruits demythified
Fruits and vegetables are the biggest sources of micro-nutrients required for normal functioning of the human body. Including fruits in our daily diet is absolutely essential. Various guidelines concerning consumption of fruits exist to help us choose the quality and quantity of fruits. Often however, certain traditional guidelines are based …
Read More »8 hidden origins of popular food phrases
“Food is our common ground, a universal experience’’ – James Beard Food forms a part of everything around us. From cells of every living organism to the inanimate technological developments of 21st century, from imagination to reality, food is everywhere. How can we ignore then, the presence of food in …
Read More »In-Extremis: Microbes
Life came into existence one billion years after Earth’s formation when the crust cooled enough and gases were formed. Hydrothermal vents acted as a cradle for Earth’s life. And it is a well-accepted theory that single-celled ‘archaea’ were the very first organisms on Earth. Let me introduce first the term …
Read More »Conversations with human cells – I: Music of the body
Hi. Well, Hi. You said you had some questions. Yes, a lot of them actually but I wanted to start with Music and you. I was just reading about music that you produce and wondered if that was true? (Possibly wiggling constantly) Do you see me? Probably not! I …
Read More »Into the world of nothingness
A thousand thoughts Hazy pictures Meandering mind And the stagnant being The occult purpose The visible superficialities The questioned conditioning And the confused being Shedding the layers Baring the beneath An another level, The afraid being A clear slate An unknown world Delving into the nothing, The free being. …
Read More »Lost
I am sitting here with my eyes closed But I am staring at the Sun there And playing with the wind And smiling at the waters. It is quite quiet here But there my feet are tapping, My body waving and the fingers moving the strings To the …
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