This section on 'My native country', has been used more to showcase the negitives about India then the positives. Fact is, when the western world was in the stone age, India was technically and scientifically advanced nation. This video made by BBC shows how developed India was in the BC age and how many of the worlds inventions were first made in India and subsequently changed the whole world. For a change, be proud to be an Indian.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8946074383583015610&q=genre%3Adocumentary

Right on the dot.

I had just returned from the Coles book store, where I had bought a book called "The Art of India" by Nigel Cawthorne of Bounty Books, to present to my daughters class teacher a Thank You present.

It is on sale at $9.99. Please check this book out for pictorial presentation of Indian art dating back to 250 BC. The lion capital of the pillar rected by Asoka at Sarnath is estimated as of 250 BC. This is same thing you see in your Rupee note or Government of India Seal.

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Speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times....

"When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our
vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, 'think of the
starving children in India and finish the dinner.' And now I tell my
children: 'Finish your maths homework. Think of the children in India
who would make you starve, if you don't.'"

Online it is 60 $

http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1571456317/sr=8-7/qid=1151101687/ref=sr_1_7/701-2455642-2615521?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=gateway&v=glance

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/item/books-978157145631/1571456317/Art+of+India?ref=Search+Books%3a+'Nigel+Cawthorne'

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You know you are a desi when ........ You spew forth the virtues of India, but don't want to live there...............You've never had a tanning salon membership

Past (glory) is past .People/ Country/ Organization live in the past are dead, not creative.

Even the record holders (like Sachin and Ganguly) are not selected for a tournament if they are not fit, as it should be.

Yes, we had an envious past. Future is not judged by the past but by the present.

You cannot ask someone to smell your mustache to find out what your grand father had eaten. (A translation of Telugu proverb).

India was nodoubt the inspiration which led to discover/invent - America/ Atom bomb/ peace (Gandhi).

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Originally posted by amitcr

This section on 'My native country', has been used more to showcase the negitives about India then the positives. Fact is, when the western world was in the stone age, India was technically and scientifically advanced nation. This video made by BBC shows how developed India was in the BC age and how many of the worlds inventions were first made in India and subsequently changed the whole world. For a change, be proud to be an Indian.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8946074383583015610&q=genre%3Adocumentary

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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1669432.cms

Desi millionaires: 83,500 and rising

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 2006 12:00:00 AM]

MUMBAI: India’s dollar millionaires’ club is growing faster than most other economies. The number of HNIs grew by 19.3% in 05, the second best performance after Korea’s 21.3% — though Korea is growing on a lower base. The number of dollar millionaires — individuals with financial assets of Rs 4.5 crore and above — in India now stands at 83,500 as compared to 70,000 in ‘04, according to the World Wealth Report from Capgemini and Merrill Lynch.


• No. of millionaires in India up by 19.3%, second only to S Korea
• India had 83,500 millionaires in ’05, up from 70,000 in ’04
• US has maximum millionaires— 2.67 million
• 1 in every 100 Americans is a millionaire, compared to 1 in 13,000 Indians


While high networth individuals (HNIs) are on the rise across the world, Asia-Pacific is the only region where they generated a larger amount of cash through investing. The rational behind a faster growth in wealth creation was a faster growth in real GDP and market capitalisation in the Asia-Pacific region.

The report states that over the previous decade, financial wealth among HNIs had grown from $16.6 trillion to $33.3 trillion. Currently, the number of HNIs across the world is nearly 9m, compared to 4.5m in 1996, growing at 8% CAGR (see table). These financial gains were particularly strong in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East, where emerging markets continue to play a moderate game of “catch up” with major markets.

The number of ultra HNIs too is on the rise. Ultra HNIs are defined as individuals with financial assets of $30m plus (Rs 135 crore plus). The total number of these ultra HNWIs now stands at 85,400, a 10.2% increase in ‘05, compared to an 8.9% increase in ‘04. According to the report, these gains show that while market returns and economic indicators signaled that a deceleration was under way in many regions of the world, HNIs were still able to find select pockets of high performance in ‘05.

The rise in millionaires has given a fillip to the private banking business in India. Currently, only a handful of entities cater to the high-end of private banking in India. These are ABN Amro, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, DSP Merrill Lynch, SocGen. Others like UBS, Credit Suisse are also looking at launching their private banking in India.

ABN Amro Bank executive vice-president and head of private clients (Asia), Barend Janssens, said, “We foresee an expansion in the need for wealth management services in India due to deregulation of markets and our target base in India includes diamond merchants, large corporates and small and medium enterprises.”

One area where HNIs found significant opportunity was in the Asia-Pacific region, where the twin drivers of market capitalisation and GDP continued to deliver high rates of growth.

Latin America and the Middle East also exhibited strong growth, which benefited HNIs investing domestically and from other parts of the world. Alert to cooling real estate and capital markets, HNIs continued to reassess their market opportunities and investment strategies. Generally speaking, HNIs remained guarded with respect to real estate and mature markets, however, their portfolio balancing act varied from region to region.


http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1675039.cms

India, Inc. looks westward for talent
PARVATHY ULLATIL

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 2006 01:22:16 AM]

MUMBAI: Infosys is not the only Indian company making the journey westwards to pick up graduates off Ivy League college campuses. Traditional brick and mortar manufacturing companies are also knocking on the doors of these institutions to meet their hiring needs.

Companies like Mahindra & Mahindra and Reliance Industries are going all out to hire management trainees from the creme de la creme of foreign management institutes to work on their international strategy.

M&M, which started visiting these foreign campuses two years ago, has picked up eight trainees from top ranking foreign colleges like Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Tufts, Wisconsin and the University of Pennsylvania.

The company, which has around 35-40 foreign nationals working for them in India, has been consciously looking at globalising its workforce. Interestingly, when it comes to remuneration M&M pays these overseas trainees the same salary as their Indian counterparts. These Ivy leaguers are evidently sold on the India story.

While a couple of them are employed with Tech Mahindra the others are working on international strategy for the automotive group, which has been taking its products to South Africa, Western Europe, Russia, Middle East and South East Asia.

RIL, on the other hand, has hired graduates from these campuses off and on in the past but is looking at making a more concentrated effort now. The company is now looking at the option of hiring more consistently from Ivy League colleges for jobs across the organisation.

Says Ronesh Puri, MD, Executive Access, “The manufacturing sector has seen a change in its mind-set in the last couple of years. They have been hiring from B-schools ranked between 15-20 in the past, but now they have raised the bar and are looking at better colleges in India as well as Ivy League colleges.”

Rajeev Dubey, president (HR & corporate services), M&M, himself a Yale graduate and the man behind these overseas recruitment’s explained the rationale behind this move: “We are very keen that our employees here get global exposure and that can be done in two ways, either by posting them overseas or by giving them an opportunity to work with global talent in India.

We pick the cream from these top American institutes and they help globalise our workforce and bring with them fresh, out-of-the-box thinking.” Mr Dubey also thinks that these overseas trainees will go on to become global ambassadors for M&M.

Besides its overseas trainee programme, M&M also takes in summer interns from Harvard, Yale and the Babson MBA Institute. M&M has a tie up with Yale University through the Mahindra Leitner Internship Program where one student comes every year for a summer internship in the Mahindra Group. Currently they have five interns on board.


http://www.naukri.com/

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Speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times....

"When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our
vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, 'think of the
starving children in India and finish the dinner.' And now I tell my
children: 'Finish your maths homework. Think of the children in India
who would make you starve, if you don't.'"