New Delhi, June 12 -- In keeping with the times, I speak to Amit Gupta, co-founder and CEO of shared mobility startup Yulu, over a Zoom call. It is a follow-up to a meeting held over two months ago, when the world was still living "the old normal", at the Oberoi hotel coffee shop on Bengaluru's MG Road. The coronavirus pandemic was remote, something happening in other parts of the world. We ordered freshly squeezed fruit juices and sat across a small table- barely 3ft apart.
Soon after, however, the pandemic started escalating in India. Life came to a standstill and this section of Lounge felt redundant at a time when most businesses had suspended operations or were unsure of how they would go on. It was only after the government announced...