Category: Community
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Commonwealth 2.0, not Empire 2.0
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India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa explains why he believes that a reformed Commonwealth, with the UK and India working in harmony, could create the world’s largest trade bloc. The ongoing Commonwealth Trade Ministers’ Meeting in London offers the 52-member bloc a unique opportunity to fashion agreements on increasing trade and…
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Time to put real thrust behind India’s soft power
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India’s cultural diplomacy is entrenched in ‘babudom’. It must urgently get some real teeth and direction to reflect the aspirations of a new India, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. Most Indians still don’t know much about Brazil beyond the facts that it is a fellow BRICS nation and the…
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India's "Clean-Up" Budget: Five top takeaways for foreign investors
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Digitisation and a crackdown on bureaucracy and black money are among the many 2017 Budget highlights the global community can cheer about, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. It took some deft tightrope walking, but Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley kept his promise and delivered a growth-oriented Budget that pleased…
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India’s Big Defence Juggle: Great progress, more to be done
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I recently met a well-known financier in London who has invested over $500 million in India. When I met him last year, he was feeling apprehensive about his investments, feeling that his “Modi-bet” may not be coming off. His investments were stagnating, the bureaucracy was still finding its feet with…
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Donald Trump to address Hindu Americans at New Jersey rally
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I wonder, will the US see a shift by Indians away from the Democrats to Republicans in the same way that there has been a shift from Labour to the Conservatives in the UK over the past few years? Read more…
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Human Rights, Boluchisthan, and China's role
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I don’t know the organisers of this protest but the cause is just. As we start to learn more about the decades of atrocities in this suppressed land, it’s evident that the world community has for too long either ignored or been ignorant of the suffering of the Boluchi people.…
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Indian Ocean Conference – Singapore
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What a cracking line up for the India Foundation Indian Ocean Conference next week in Singapore. Am looking forward to attending the event and also significantly the first India Foundation International Board meeting. Well done to Ram Madhav ji, Shourya, and especially Guru Prakash and the entire NextGen IF team…
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Good for our communities, good for Punjab, bad for the terrorists
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During his UK visit last November, PM Modi met and listened patiently to over 25 leaders from the Sikh Community. He promised to look into a decades old practice of blacklisting, and true to his word, he has delivered. Not sure about the spin TOI has given linking the announcement…
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'Stop RSS baiting' says BBC icon Mark Tully while launching Rajiv Kumar's new book – Modi & His Challenges
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The first of 3 book launches I am attending this week in New Delhi. Looks like it’s raining books here! India’s energetic Energy minister Piyush Goyal launched #Modi & His Challenges by my friend and economist Rajiv Kumar. A frank assessment of the Modi government over the past two years, and what…
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Namaste! HSS, Why?
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This weekend thousands of people from across the UK will be converging on a purpose built tent village just outside London to celebrate the 50th anniversary of HSS UK. I too am looking forward to the celebrations and meeting many old friends, some I haven’t seen for over 25 years.…