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IT, startups display stability and resilience in covid-hit Kerala
ERNAKULAM : Kerala, which once witnessed large trade union protests against computerisation and digitisation storming its streets, may now have to thank the technology and startup sectors, at a time when nearly all other economic mainstays are failing amid the coronavirus outbreak."They've become a true life support for an economy in dire straits," said G Vijayaraghavan, former chief executive of Technopark, Kerala’s first technology park, and currently president of consultancy firm Venture Management Associates.Going by Vijayaraghavan’s recollection, a small interaction between a Mexican woman and state's then chief minister, unleashed a chain of events that are now helping Kerala.In 1990, on a visit to North America, former Kerala chief