WORLD FLUTE FESTIVAL
Every year the ‘Raasrang World Flute Festival’ spreads the message of “Love Peace Water” through the timeless melody of wind instruments. This year’s Raasrang was organised and hosted in collaboration with the United Nations Information Centre For India And Bhutan (UNIC) and the Indian Council For Cultural Relations (ICCR). This 7th Edition of the festival, […]
SPREADING ECONOMIC & INNER WELLBEING TOGETHER
Today, our society is in transition, moving from one level of economic development to another. This transformation is likely to happen dramatically in the next few years’ time. We hope it is going to percolate into rural India, and it will. The point is just that if we facilitate it, it will happen very well. […]
INDIA’S UNCLE SAM
The United States of America’s ‘Uncle Sam’ with is top hat adorned with stars and stripes is rather famous across the globe. But little is known of India’s own Uncle Sam, who came from a Parsi family and was once the most powerful man in our country. Popularly known as Sam Bahadur, he had made […]
FACE CHANGING GAMES – STARS PLAY
Acting is by no means an easy job. To get into the mold of the character that an actor is portraying, he has to do a lot of homework and footwork in order to get his teeth into the skin of the character. Quite often this obsession of actors to act is stretched to abysmal […]
REDEFINING ‘COMFORT’ IN URBAN INDIA TODAY
Today, urban India is largely driven by up-and-coming single professionals and young, dual-income nuclear families. As per a recent study, over 10% of Indian families still had nine members or more in 2001 while only slightly above 6% of families had that many members by 2011. More and more Indian families have splintered off from […]
STREAMLINING CONSTRUCTION APPROVALS
In the backdrop of a large number of stalled real estate projects, the report, “Streamlining Approval Procedure for Real Estate Projects (SAPREP),” brought out by the Ministry of Urban Development, Housing & Poverty Alleviation, has been made an integral part of the model building by-laws in the yet to be released “National Building Code 2016,” […]
INDIA’S GROWTH STORY – THE TURNING POINTS
India is today the fastest growing economy in the world. Achievement of this status would not have been possible if India had not embarked on a reformation process in the 1990s. The past 25 years saw the launch of major structural reforms in the Indian financial landscape, with its transformative effects continuing today and reaching […]
INDO-PAK RELATIONS – TURNING UP THE HEAT
Pakistan has always remained a thorn in India’s flesh, right from the time the British carved up the subcontinent as a parting gift, a partitioning that saw much bloodletting and massacres, with estimates of the dead varying from the low 200,000s to the high 2,000,000s. Time healed wounds to the extent that India returned to […]
CROWN PRINCE OF ABU DHABI TO BE THE 2017 REPUBLIC DAY CHIEF GUEST
The Indian government has invited the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to be the next chief guest at Indias Republic Day parade of 2017. The Indian government has invited His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United […]
GANGES' WATER SELF-PURIFYING PROPERTY REVEALED BY INDIAN SCIENTIFIC STUDY
Ganges’ water is now scientifically validated to be ‘holy’ and ‘healing’ as its self purifying action has strong scientific evidence. Scientists at three government laboratories were investigating for the medicinal materials in the waters of the Ganga through a study they say is intended to investigate the river’s healing properties described in folklore. Ganga is […]
हम उस सपने को भारत कहते हैं …
पृथ्वी के इस भूभाग में मनुष्य की चेतना की पहली किरण के साथ उस सपने को देखना शुरू किया था। उस सपने की माला में कितने फूल पिरोये हैं – कितने गौतम बुद्ध, कितने महावीर, कितने कबीर, कितने नानक उस सपने के लिए अपने प्राणों को न्योछावर कर गए। उस सपने को मैं अपना कैसे […]
SUDHGURU TOURS USA
For our readers in the United States of America, it might be interesting to know that Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, a self-realised yogi, mystic, seer, visionary, and prominent spiritual leader from India, will be touring the US from mid-September to mid-October. Sadhguru, who is also a prolific author, poet, an internationally-acclaimed speaker and founding father of […]
DYING TO LIVE
If you are creating what you really care for, if you die of exhaustion, that’s okay. If you are not doing what really matters and creating what you care for, if you die of exhaustion just trying to earn a living, that is a stupid way to die. I remember there was a man who […]
SHEKHAWATI – A WONDERLAND OF FRESCOS
What do surnames like the Ruias, the Poddars, the Goenkas, the Jhunjhunwallas, the Birlas, the Kotharis, the Piramals, the Singhanias, the Khaitans, the Bajajs, Kedias and the Bhartiyas have in common ? One, all of them are highly respected business families belonging to the Marwari business community – but another facet of these families is […]
THE TREASURES OF MEHRAULI
The Mehrauli village of Delhi is most famous for the tallest rubble minaret in world, the mighty Qutub Minar. In our November 2013 edition of the NRI Achievers, we had told you the untold story of the Qutub Minar. In other issues, we have also shared with you the story behind Mehrauli’s ‘Phoolwalon-ka-Sair’ and some […]
GST WHAT IS IT ?
The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Second) Amendment Bill 2014, unofficially and commonly better known as the ‘GST’ or the ‘Goods & Services Tax’ Bill, has been passed by both the upper house Rajya Sabha and the lower house Lok Sabha of the Indian Parliament. The implementation deadline for this Act is the 1st of April […]
GST TO HERALD GOOD TIMES
The Goods and Services Tax (aka GST), a much awaited landmark reform undertaken by the government, is more than likely to give a formidable boost to the Indian economy in general, and real estate sector – one that contributes significantly to our GDP – in particular. Now that both the houses of the Indian Parliament […]
INDIAN FOOD FESTIVAL – 2016 … TAKES BRUSSELS BY STORM
Indian Confluence (InCo), a social organisation based out of Brussels in Belgium, has been working towards building a bridge between European and Indian societies. InCo strives to provide a platform to showcase India’s diverse culture, art and music with an underlying message of celebrating unity. They have been active in showcasing Indian culture and cuisine, […]