Kapil Chopra: The eternal optimist
Restaurants and hotels are completely crippled by COVID-19. What are the odds that you are present in both and not the least bit worried?
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Editor's note: In my head, I’d imagined Kapil Chopra to be moping. After all, it is not every day that both your businesses are unlucky enough to be brought to a grinding halt by the largest health crisis the world has ever seen. It is the middle of April, and India has enforced one of the toughest lockdowns in the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Everything has come to a standstill, and nobody is quite sure what impact it will have on the lives of people and the longevity of businesses. Speculation is rife that thousands of restaurants will go under. That the hospitality industry will take months, if not years, to recover. Startups without funding lines won’t make it to the other side. Movement is life and the pandemic took that life away from us. Forcing us to hide inside our houses, big and small. It is in this moment of concern that I wonder what Kapil Chopra must be going through. Because he has not one but two businesses which rely on people going about living their lives. …
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