Innovating Living Spaces and Promoting Green Sustainable Realty
Even as we border on the verge of a new age of quality living within urban environs, we are simultaneously entering a cusp in terms of environmentally conscious development, that can be both sustainable and ‘green’ – environment friendly. This concern with what we are doing to the environment has seeped into the real estate […]
Indo-Russia Equations Modi Waiks the diplomatic Tightrope
One of Narendra Modi’s most endearing qualities as India’s Prime Minister has been his ability to strike up an immediate personal rapport with other world leaders. Whether it is Shinzo Abe of Japan, Xi Jinping of China, Barack Obama of the United States, Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Dilma Rouseff of Brazil, Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri […]
Icons of India's Freedom Movement
KHAN ABDUL GHAFFAR KHAN – THE FRONTIER GANDHI Among the great personalities who contributed in no small measure to India gaining freedom from the British yoke, there are many notables who played cardinal roles in mainstreaming the mass movements that were the hallmark of India’s non-violent struggle for independence against the British raj and its […]
Indiaspora the Magnificent Magi of Silicon Valley II
In today’s highly interconnected ICT enabled world of world girdling telecom networks, ubiquitous internet, electronic trade, high speed data networks and online transactions, the gap between the digital haves and the have nots yawns wider, leaving a vast abyss of a digital divide, broadly along the age-old conventional definition of the northsouth divide. While the […]
2015, a year of hopes and aspirations
Happy New Year ! Even as 2015 kindles new hopes and spiraling aspirations, the outgoing 2014 was indeed a watershed year for India. We saw a sea-change sweeping our polity, with the 150-year old Congress party fading to the background in ignominious defeat, and the BJP sweeping the polls to come to power with an […]
FDI Reforms to Rejuvenate Real Estate
India’s easing of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms for the real estate sector, the intent to found and build at least a 100 Greenfield smart-cities, and related moves by the current NDA government has lifted the sentiment in the sector. FDI inflows, especially, are quite likely to boost investment into the sector and rejuvenate a […]
VAASTU
Q. Amit, Kanpur: Both my father and I have suffered a lot in life. Despite all my hard work, I have not been able to increase my income. I used to think that once I start earning, our financial problems will be solved, but so far I have been wrong. More so, my wife has […]
Impact of NDA's Wins on Maharashtra INFRA
With a majority government in place at the centre that is not fettered by coalition politics and its attendant woes, the BJP has taken several positive steps that are seen by industry as moves to revitalise the ailing property sector and infuse new energy into it. Not only that, all the new infrastructure building envisaged […]
The Last Hindu Emperor of Delhi
Google the above title text and all you will find is “Prithvi Raj Chauhan.” While Prithvi Raj Chauhan was a brave fighter indeed and a noble emperor of Ajmer and Delhi, who ruled from 1169 CE to 1192 CE and the tales of his bravery are common folklore among Indian families, very few historians and […]
Diaspora in India's Freedom Moviement
There are several notables who contributed significantly to India’s freedom struggle, and are icons in the trajectory of the subcontinent attaining freedom from the British yoke. Though this persona played key roles and facilitated several milestones in the attainment of freedom and independence, many of them remain unsung heroes and heroines in our overtly recorded […]
Father of the intel Pentium & AMD K6 Chips
Vinod Dham is popularly known as the Father of the Pentium chip, for his contribution to the development of Intel’s highly successful Pentium processors. He is a mentor, advisor and investor and sits on the boards of many companies, including promising start-ups funded through his India based fund – Indo US Venture Partners, of which […]
Indiaspora The Magnificent Magi Of Silicon Valley
If you grew up in India before the turn of the millennium, you would surely have heard this when you were young. “So and so went to America with just his degree and a handful of dollars in his pocket. All he had with him was his brain and (faith in god/ love for mom/ […]
In Focus
NRI Achievers sought out and spoke to Vijay Haulder, a Deputy Director with the Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority, responsible for and in-charge of the Authority’s forays into the Indian Market. He has been spearheading this endeavour of attracting tourism from India into Mauritius for some decades now. “Like much of Mauritians you might have met […]
AUSCHWITZ REMEMBERING THE WW-II HOLOCAUST AUSCHWITZ
This is the third and final part of the Poland Trilogy we undertook to bring to you two issues ago. In a way, it is my humble homage to the people of various nationalities who were murdered, nay exterminated in cold blood by the Nazis during the World War-II Holocaust all around Eastern Europe. I […]
FROM SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR TO PHILANTHROPHY
Vinod Khosla, named by Fortune magazine as “the greatest Venture Capitalist of all time,” founded one of the most famous brands on Earth, Sun Microsystems, at the age of 27 and went on to fund more start-ups in optical networking, router manufacture and transmission companies than any other financier on Earth. A modest middle-class Delhiite […]
Mauritius
Mauritius (République de Maurice) is a small, multicultural island nation in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, northeast of Reunion and southeast of Seychelles. It lies about 2,000 kilometres away from the southeast coast of the African continent. The country includes the island of Mauritius, Rodrigues, the islands of Agalega, and the archipelago of Saint […]
Commemorating The 180th Indian Arrival Day MAURITIUS LOOKS BACK TO THE FUTURE
To commemorate the 180th anniversary of the day when the first Indian indentured labourer set foot on its shores, the Ministry of Arts and Culture in Mauritius had organised a week long event that had many facets to it. These began with an official commemoration ceremony on the 2nd of November with India’s Minister for […]
Indenture And The Archipelago The Mauri Tius experience
Any keen eyed traveller would rightaway notice that the many faces of Mauritius evoke visions of Asian, African or European homelands. As late as till 1598, Mauritius had remained uninhabited till the Dutch came, making Mauritians of today descendants of multiple genetic strains that reached the Archipelago – from European planters who came in the […]