MindRush 2016 becomes platform for engaging ideas

Delivering the morning lecture at the 'Wakeup Call' session of Business Today's flagship event, MindRush, Dr. Naresh Trehan, Chairman and Managing Director of Medanta Hospitals, said discipline  and control over the quantum and frequency of your food can make a lot of difference.

Demonetisation would pave the way for financial inclusion and brining the black money back into the formal economy, said Amitabh Kant, the CEO of Niti Ayog.

Don't just focus on the substance of the deal, focus on the economics of it, said Deepak Malhotra, Eli Goldston Professor of Business Administration.

Speaking on 'Why Positive Deviance Works',  Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia, declared that despite the increasing incidence of fake news sites across the world, Wikipedia has not been impacted. Interestingly, the authors of Wikipedia are 87 per cent. "It is a big problem," he said.

Anita Nayyar explaining the millennial mindset at Business Today MindRush 2016

"Patanjali did not happen because of meticulous planning; it happened because yoga guru Ramdev wanted to help a bunch of farmers," says Acharya Balkrishna.

"All the estimates that are being thrown around by economists on the impact on GDP growth are mere guesses. Economists make predictions based on past trends but there is no precedence to demonetisation in India," said Arvind Virmani.

At the Business Today Mind Rush event, four Dalal Street veterans gave their wisdom on "How to survive stock market in 2017". The advise: stay invested for the long-term.

To elaborate the shape and structure of the new workplace, C.P. Gurnani, CEO and MD of IT company Tech Mahindra laid out his thoughts at Business Today's MindRush 2016.

The issue of demonetisation was the topic of an exciting discussion at the 4th edition of Business Today Mind Rush with top economists presenting diverse points of view.

Speaking at the Business Today Best CEO's Awards, Venu Srinivasan said the automotive market will move beyond the current rage of electric vehicles, as software and hardware giants like Google and Apple going into the mobility mode.

Aroon Purie, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, India Today Group addressing the gathering at Business Today MindRush 2016

Union Minister of Law and Justice and Ministry of Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad addressing the gathering at Business Today MindRush 2016