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9th May 2017 Chennai, India

Cliff Dennett

Cliff Dennett

Head of Business Development, Innovation Birmingham Ltd, UK

Innovation Birmingham

In March, I had the absolute delight of visiting India for the first time in my life and the whole week was an adventure, both personally and commercially. Experiencing the Indian way of life, the hospitality and incredible proactivity to doing business were all eye-opening, as was the traffic! I help run Innovation Birmingham, the […]

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20th June 2011

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by Greg Dorey

Diplomat

Budapest Pride Week

Some weeks ago I blogged about the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. This week (11-19 June) the Budapest Pride Festival is taking place, with the annual March due tomorrow. The police have pledged that the March will be secure and safe (though there has been an announcement about a possible far right counter-demonstration in […]

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21st December 2010

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

A 350 km walk through the Indian countryside, £100,000 raised for charities – and memories for life

I am proud and a little relieved that my wife completed her trek in the footsteps of Gandhi. I am proud and a little relieved to write after my last blog that my wife completed her 350 kilometre trek in the footsteps of Gandhi’s famous Salt March of 1930 at the beginning of December. The […]

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10th December 2010

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

Walking 358km in the footsteps of Gandhi

On  Thursday 18 November forty  people gathered  pre-dawn at one of India’s most historic sites, the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, where Mahatma Gandhi lived for many years. The occasion was the beginning of an India-UK Friendship Walk, which my wife Jill  has organised with massive support from members of the Association of British Scholars in […]

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26th March 2010 Islamabad, Pakistan

by Adam Thomson

British High Commissioner to Pakistan

Celebrating a proud Pakistan!

In response to an earlier blog of mine someone asked whether I really meant my description of Pakistan as a proud country or whether I was just being polite.  I was not just being polite.  I meant proud.  And proud in ways that diplomats like me need to understand and remember.   The celebration of Pakistan […]

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