Mumtaz Alam, IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi / Mumbai, Oct 27: Who is this man shaking hands and shoulders with business leaders from India and UAE? An industrialist. No. A gatecrasher. A big No. He is a Special Invitee at the India-UAE Strategic Conclave 2017 at the Al-Habtoor City in Dubai. He is founder, owner and editor of an English business monthly, only one of its kind in India, and five news portals in as many languages.
He is Danish Reyaz. His journey from a one-room rented house-cum-office in a nondescript dingy lane of India’s commercial capital to a position where his Maeeshat magazine becomes media partner of a premier international business conclave and he is invited as VIP has been long and strenuous.
Danish Reyaz (R) with Ashish Kumar Chauhan, MD & CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange, at India-UAE Strategic Conclave 2017 in Dubai.
Danish Reyaz (R) shaking hand with Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Cabinet Member and Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, UAE at India-UAE Strategic Conclave in Dubai.
Danish Reyaz (C) with young businessmen at India-UAE Strategic Conclave 2017 in Dubai.
Danish Reyaz (L) with an Arab businessman at India-UAE Strategic Conclave 2017 in Dubai.
When Danish moved to Mumbai in 2010 after getting education at the Jamiatul Falah madrasa in Azamgarh, Jamia Millia Islamia university in Delhi and then at his hometown Patna, his hands were almost empty but mind full of details of an innovative idea.
True to the nature of the city he opted for the launch of his career, and armed with business family background, Danish decided to launch a business magazine in Urdu language, probably an uncharted territory till then. Why this?
“With some exposure to campus media in college days, I wanted to make a career in the field of journalism. I decided to run a business magazine in Urdu namely Bainul Aqwami Maeeshat with apparent focus on the Muslim minority because I thought that the community which has remained almost aloof from the national economy even decades after Independence needs awareness and boost,” says Danish. “Their youths lack business motivation and are away from the mainstream economy. This keeps them at the bottom of the national economy,” he avers.
And soon he realized that he should expand his audience by reaching to those in the Muslim community and also to the youths of other backward communities who can read only English. And thus, he launched English edition of the magazine with the name of Maeeshat.
Buoyed with success, he then launched five news websites in English, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic and Persian – all carrying the name of Maeeshat. In 2013, he set up Maeeshat Media Pvt. Ltd and got it registered to run all these media outlets in a formal way.
To increase the reach, he tied up with leading news apps News Hunt, UC News and Magzter. It has paid. He gets over two lakh hits on portals every month, a big chunk of it comes from GCC countries as his media outlet prominently covers business news from the region.
Apart from print and internet, Maeeshat Media has been holding business conclaves in different parts of the country where young entrepreneurs from the marginalized community were honored to boost the morale of the youths.
His venture is being noticed.
Maeeshat was one of the media partners of the India-UAE Strategic Conclave 2017 organized on 27-28 September in Dubai by India’s leading business daily The Economic Times with the support of the Narendra Modi government’s flagship Make in India program.
Now it is going to be one of the media partners of the 2nd edition of The Economic Times Asian Business Leaders Conclave 2017 (ABLC) to be held on 29th November 2017 in Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia.
