21st December 2010
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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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5th October 2010
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At India’s largest annual banking conference in Mumbai in September, the British Minister for Commercial Services in the Treasury was asked about the development of Islamic banking in England. Lord Sassoon was able to spell out how a number of UK banks had started to offer specific services for Islamic customers. Some overseas visitors to the […]
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21st September 2010
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A group of UK students visiting Mumbai in August heard from one lecturer that the city was a “melting pot” or a “mosaic” of different religions. If they had been able to stay on until September the students would have seen for themselves a graphic and vivid demonstration of the lecturer’s words springing to life. […]
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28th June 2010
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The British Business Group in Pune invited me to their AGM (Annual General Meeting) in mid June. Pune is Maharashtra State’s second largest city and I have heard estimates of a population between four to six million. The national census this year should give the figure. Pune is the major centre for the automotive sector […]
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11th June 2010
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Many people are talking about India’s ‘Second Tier’ cities. The phrase doesn’t strike me as the kindest, with the hint that they haven’t quite made the grade. But it is commonly used, to differentiate the large number of growing two million plus cities from the huge metropolises like Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai. I visited briefly […]
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26th May 2010
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My aim for this new blog is to provide snapshots every two weeks from Mumbai illustrating the vibrancy of UK–Indian business relations. I am fortunate to meet in my job hundreds of UK and Indian businesspeople, ranging from the heads of some of the UK’s largest companies, and India’s ( and the world’s!) richest businessmen, […]
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