What a week of festivals it’s been. In Kerala, I m on short vacation trip, the weather has been particularly brutal. The state’s roads and canals are indistinguishable from one another—a tragic but entirely predictable outcome of the heavy and constant rain we’ve been experiencing. It’s almost as if the rain gods turned on the taps so decided to travel on vacation.
Over the years, I’ve found the harder it rains, the fiercer my tasty yummy biryani. Be it the classic Hyderabadi, the decadent Calcutta, or the royal Awadhi biryani from Lucknow. My personal favourite, though, is Malabar chicken biriyani.
Pinpointing the origin of biryani within the Indian subcontinent may be a tricky affair. Some say Arab traders brought it with them within the first century; others say that when the Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur arrived within the 14th century, his army carried large pots of rice, spices, and meat. There's even a theory that says Mughal empress Mumtaz Mahal invented the dish.
No matter what story you decide on to believe, the one style that I’m not a giant fan of is that the pre-packaged abomination they call ready-to-eat biryani. I prefer slow-cooked. Yes, it’s time-consuming, but hey, all good items take time - a principle that Manish Gupta, co-founder of healthtech-services company Indegene, would accept as true with that what I have posted a blog on it.
This brings us to the stories we published on our website www.multimediastudio.net this week on. Flavourful and filled with meat, our lineup was as diverse because the different types of biriyani. Here's a prompt recap.
In this week’s Counterthesis, the Indegene boss speaks about key to putting together a sustainable business in today’s risk capital-fuelled business environment is to “be boring”. Gupta points out that building Indegene over the course of twenty-two years wasn't done by raising money frequently, making swift acquisitions, or dispensing titles to poach senior executives from rival companies.
But that doesn’t mean building an establishment must take multiple decades. During the week, we posted about the success of the 13-year-old Jindal Global school of law. Despite charging higher admission fees, students flock to the faculty in droves. Talent acquisition professionals say the exposure, faculty, and networking that the college provides are coming in handy as on-campus recruitments from top law firms increase. It’s a superb story, don’t miss it.
In another article we examined what it might reckon Jio Platforms to possess a successful initial public offering and why hoping on telecom revenue alone won't do the work.
Finally, finishing this week’s editorial lineup was the tug-of-war between promoters who want to delist their companies and also the minority shareholders who feel they're being robbed. While promoters say they follow the markets regulator’s rules, minority shareholders want the principles changed — to incorporate more parameters for the correct price.
That’s it from us last weekend. I hope you have got an excellent time reading these stories on a hopefully sunny Sunday. As for me, I’m trying to convince my mother to allow us to order biryani for lunch - 😂😋😘
