As a Durga, it's always an amusing time of the year for us as we had started seeing parallels everywhere—and I'm about to take you through one.
As you'd know, this week marked the start of the Hindu festive season—Durgotsav being a rather prominent part of it. While Durga Pujo—as Bengali people like to call it—ends, it also marks the beginning of a new era, although they lost IPL to CSK.
Though The MMS took the day off for Dussehra this week, our stories running up to the day spoke of ambition, promise, and… junk food. Not too far from how Durga Pujo pandals work, if you ask me.
On Saptami, when crowds (pre-pandemic) would throng pandals in search of yummy food they can eat—come on, only two more days of Pujo left—We had wrote about how junk food giants have won against FSSAI. (Yes, that runs a bit counter intuitive to the good vs evil Pujo narrative.) India’s food safety authority wants consumers to know how much sugar, salt, and fat is in their packaged food. But industry players and consumer advocates think otherwise. Nouman, though, took to helping people out via Twitter.
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Day 3 of Pujo is pretty much the main event. And on Mahashtami, We @ Studio looked into the most prominent entity—the government. The Government e-Marketplace or GeM wants to become a unified e-marketplace. It wants to triple its gross merchandise value to a whopping $13 billion. But it's not as easy as GeM makes it sound—there's just too many ministries and government bodies to integrate.
Finally we closed the week just as Pujo ended on Navami with the article on the evolution of startup acquisitions in India with compares Hotmail's acquisition to the less-talked-about Ally.io's. "Microsoft has changed in the intervening 20 years, but so has the future of work as we know it," he writes.
This was also our second week of some super cool of or newsletters. You can check them all at our website. If you’d like a taste, how about our Saturday newsletter The MMS special edition? This week, Sheela dived into the topic of recurring payments and how it’s one of the worst things that could have happened to you, the consumer.
I hope you've had a good long weekend.
And for all the Maa Durga lovers reading this, do not despair, as asche bochor abar hobe!
Cheers,