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Why confidence is a stupid thing and ignorance is bliss

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev explains shades of secularism and the strong spirit of enquiry in India “Secular means, in my opinion, that you are not screwed up in your head,” Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev said at The Huddle here on Friday. In a session titled “The sacred and the secular: Are the two irreconcilable”, Vasudev held forth about the actual meaning of what’s sacred and what’s secular. “When you interpret it in […]

'You can be from a village but if your idea is good, it will take off'

Start-ups in the information technology domain are quite common these days. But three young entrepreneurs have ventured into a comparatively lesser known area of food: snacks. Arul Murugan, co-founder, Chloroplast Foods, tells how he is bootstrapping his start-up. Two of them studied at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore and shared a hostel room. “There were only two choices before us: join the civil service or become entrepreneurs. Becoming […]

21 Things People With Confidence Embrace

Confidence is a unifying trait amongst the most successful people in the world. It’s the confidence to push past the word “no” and to pursue your dream despite the looming possibility of failure. Confident people are the people who aren’t afraid to take a stance and change the world; they stretch across nearly every realm and walk of life and can be a mother or a billionaire CEO (or both!). […]

India’s would-be entrepreneurs flock to Mumbai

Riding a sleek black Harley-Davidson motorbike and wearing a smart jacket and biking gloves, 27-year-old Arjun Bafna looks every bit the wealthy young man that he is. He comes from a family that owns one of India’s oldest and biggest automobile dealerships. He has taken the business one step forward though. Arjun runs Seven Islands Harley-Davidson, the only Harley-Davidson franchise in Mumbai. “I love automobiles, it’s my passion, because I’ve […]