NRI Achievers Rocks!
Your favourite magazine has been endowed the honour this month of becoming the official “Reporting Partner” for the upcoming Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, a flagship annual diaspora connect event of the Government of India.in January 2015 at Ahmedabad! A milestone no less for our own diaspora connect initiatives! And the last month was chock-full of events […]
Indian Achievers Making India Proud
We continue with this special feature in this issue as well, where the NRI Achievers Team brings you brief vignettes of a handful of Indian Entrepreneurial Achievers who have made their mark in different domains within the Indian economy, carving out a niche for themselves in their respective enclaves of business, and rendering yeoman service […]
You ask we answer
Q. I live in the US, I am satisfied with my financial position and there are no health or harmony problems in my family. But we feel we do not have enthusiasm in life. It’s been 7 years into our marriage and we are still childless. Doctors say that our reports are normal. Can vaastu […]
The Ubiquitous SAMOSA
I had once gone to the India Habitat Centre to deliver a lecture on heritage, and just as I had finished my talk, a person approached me and congratulated me for the way I had presented the history of Delhi. He gave me many points to ponder on, and asked if I would like to […]
The Changing Concept of Luxury Homes in India
Less than ten years ago, the concept of luxury homes was firmly tied to a city’s most expensive inner locations. ‘Pin code value’ was the watchword, and developers focused on the luxury segment operated within those boundaries. The prices of homes in such locations were and continue to be exorbitantly high, but HNI buyers were […]
One Ring to Rule them all…
Within days of Arun Jaitley taking over as the Finance Minister of the new BJP government, the buzz in ministerial corridors was that the post of Chief Economic Advisor, which had been lying vacant for more than a year, would soon be filled in. The name doing the rounds was that of Dr. Arvind Subramanian, […]
India at the Crossroads?
October has been an eventful month, what with two elections to state assemblies which brought the Bharatiya Janata Party to power with a full majority in Haryana, and a hung assembly in Maharashtra with the BJP as the single largest party. While the state has already seen the swearing in of a minority government, the […]
COMFORT ZONE FOR NDA? AN OPPORTUNE TIME FOR PUSHING THROUGH REFORMS
With public mandate in Haryana and Maharashtra boosting the morale of the NDA government at the centre, what with the BJP getting a simple majority in the northern state of Haryana, and sitting pretty in Maharashtra as the single largest party with the NCP offering unconditional support from outside and the Sena mellowing down to […]
Arvind Subramanian Portrait of an Economist as an Iconoclast
Arvind Subramanian, a native of Tamil Nadu, is an US-based economist who’s just been made the new Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. He took charge on 16 October 2014, succeeding Raghuram Rajan who moved to the RBI last September to helm the regulator as its governor. Subramanian has served as the Dennis […]
The Regional PBD 2014-INVITING BRITISH RAJAS TO RETURN TO INDIA
The two-day Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (RPBD), was hosted by the UK in London, on the 17th & 18th of October, which saw a little over 1,000 delegates congregate at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre at the heart of Westminster. Even as this first ever European Regional ‘Pravasi Bhartiya Divas’ celebrating the 1.5 million […]
We are The World!
ACHIEVERS WHO HAVE DONE INDIA PROUD – II We have all heard about Indians who went abroad and excelled in the professions thay chose to get into. Locally born immigrants, NRIs, OCIs and PIOs today hold top-jobs in business, medicine, science, technology, writing and even in politics, where some have gone on to become Presidents […]
Hon. Deepak Obhrai-PC
Mr. Deepak Obhrai, a longtime Canadian Parliamentarian, was born on July 5th, 1950 in Oldeani, Tanzania, to Indian parents and went to school on three separate continents. His alma mater includes the Arusha Secondary School in Tanzania, and the Daly College at Indore in Madhya Pradesh, India. He then went on to the UK, to […]
Mauritius Down Memory Lane
Even as we go to print, the beautiful jewel of an island in the Indian Ocean, Mauritius, embarks on a week-long nostalgic trip down memory lane, as it sets out to commemorate and celebrate the 180th anniversary of the arrival of sailing ship “Atlas,” which brought the first batch of Indian indentured workers to the […]
Slums and Slum Redevelopment- a Subaltern Perspective
Given the increasing scarcity of available land in our cities, it is becoming all the more difficult to look at the creation of affordable urban housing without first factoring in slums and their redevelopment. While Mumbai is probably the most talked-about city when it comes to slums, Pune is by no means an exemption. Pune […]
The Power of Silence
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt”. – Abraham Lincoln During high-decibel election campaigns, political leaders and their party candidates can say anything and wriggle out of it later on the plea that it was said in the heat of the moment and should […]
The City with Many Faces
We continue with our Poland Trilogy in this issue, where we pick up the threads from where we left off the last time. So we move from Warsaw to Krakow, oft cited as the cultural capital of Poland. It is an interesting city, and looks at you Janus-like, with many faces. We explore some of […]
THE BLACK MONEY CONUNDRUM
Justice Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah is one of India’s most eminent and experienced judicial personalities. Even at the advanced age of 78 years, he strongly believes in hard work, fast work and doing his job without fear or favour. Having devoted 52 years of his life to the Bar and Bench, out of which he has […]
Diwali Beyond Lord Rama
The famous festival of Diwali (Deepavali) is said to be celebrated because on this auspicious day, Lord Rama of Hindu Mythology returned from a 14 year long exile, during which he also won the battle against King Ravana of Lanka. Lord Rama’s subjects celebrated his return by lighting up earthen lamps. With time, as the […]