The Ignited Indian

On Tuesday, Yogendra Vasupal, the CEO and the cofounder of the well-known startup company “Stayzilla”, has been arrested on the charges of fraud filed by an advertising company. The company was founded by Mr. Yogendra, Mrs. Rupal Yogendra along with Sachit Singhi as Insra in the year 2005 and was rebranded as “Stayzilla” in the year 2010. It acted as a marketplace for homestays and also for alternate stays in India. It catered for both travellers as well as homeowners who had been searching for unique and differentiated stay experiences. Though Stayzilla had the first-mover advantage in the marketplace, according to Yogendra Vasupal the company had to deal with high costs because of its numerous pitfalls. Mr. Vasupal stated that, the mismatch of supply as well as demand which did not exist eighteen months back and creation of new markets so as to expand the business quickly and effectively are a couple of reasons which led to the downfall and the failure of the startu...

Secularism in India has been quite a ‘peculiarism’ since the time present India was born. If at the start of the nation building a sense of belonging had been built based on identity as a citizen instead of continuing on the basis of religion and caste, may be a different India would have emerged today. A scene comes alive in my mind when I look at the smouldering communal equation - a memory from childhood- seeing a lady trying to light a firewood stove in a tea stall alongside a highway. She would revive dying embers by blowing on them softly with a hollow pipe right at the center from behind. That worked very well at stoking the fire and in no time the fire would be roaring and ready to heat up even the thickest pot of milk. She had a bamboo fan that she would then use from above to blow the flames further. Sometimes she would add some fuel if she wanted to cook something faster. Parties like SP (the Papa-Beta combo) and BSP (Behenji version of SP?) have stoked and ke...