If we believe that 10–20 years from now, there will be some new and highly successful companies that were built in the years around COVID-19; what would their product or services be? ​ Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. — Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’​