Exploration into blogging and entrepreneurship

Chandigarh, May 1, 2022: Lecture series ‘Learn the ropes with alumni’ was held at UIFT &VD with Ms Rantika Thakur. She pursued her graduation and post-graduation from UIFT, Panjab University and started her business when she completed Masters in 2020. Around 50 students and alumni joined her lecture which was organized by Ms Parneet Brar, Guest faculty at UIFT.
Rantika shared her experience when she first started with blogging in her first year of joining  the department. She explained the entire concept of blogging and described how she began blogging for fun and later turned it into a source of income.  She emphasised the importance of taking risks and stepping outside of one's comfort zone in order to gain more exposure. From her experience, she detailed about how she started her online business “rantikathakurclothing” and what are the requisites and necessary preparations to work it out. She elaborated various material she uses and the types of products she creates. She encouraged students to try new things in order to discover what they enjoy and can excel at. Rantika's presentation was very interesting and inspiring, and it motivated participants to ask a lot of questions.