Gautam Adani says Indian economy will bounce back from lows inflicted by COVID-19

New Delhi: As the Covid-19 pandemic tests the patience and hope of a 1.3-billion strong country asked to stay at home, Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani penned an article highlighting how the disease helped people rediscover hope, goodness and love for each other.

“However [sic.] alarming the post-Coronavirus world might seem to appear, it does not pull me down. Instead, by looking around I get great hope and confidence to bounce back,” he said in an article published on professional networking website LinkedIn on Wednesday.

Adani mentioned the stories of Minal Bhonsale, the virologist who headed the project at Pune-based MyLab Discovery Solutions that developed the first indigenous Coronovirus testing kits in India and Naveen MS, a civil service aspirant who took up the responsibility of creating awareness and dispelling myths on Coronavirus among rural communities in Karnataka.


“Hundreds of such incredible stories that demonstrate resilience, hope, and power of the human spirit are unfolding around us every day,” he said.

He also told the story of a team of engineers at Adani Port in Vizag that devised a sanitised water shower for all to use within four hours.

“You need not look too far to get inspired,” he said, talking about people who were collecting essentials for the underprivileged during the lockdown. “These are common people leading humble lives but what makes them extraordinary is their intent to care for others.”

Domestic helps, daily wage earners and scores of people who earned their living by doing odd-jobs were being looked after by not just the government, large corporations or charitable organisations, but by common people living around them, he wrote adding that there are virtual groups of animal lovers who were feeding strays and ensuring that they find safe shelter.

“I don’t think this collective goodness and love for each other has erupted suddenly. It was always there within us. The COVID19 crisis has only presented an opportunity for us to reflect upon this feeling of compassion and worked as a trigger to unite people.”