Health Tourism - yet another driver for chennai's growth

The Hindu has been reporting articles about the growing health tourism in Chennai. Chennai's hospitals are providing world class health services and foreigners have started to flock Chennai for health care. As a result, lot of suburbs of Chennai are bustling with providing accomudation and other services for the patients and their accompanying caretakers.

What a striking contrast to the trend just a few years back when all the politicians after getting elected would fly to US to get their surgeries done at government's expense.

No Stops for Mamata Bannerjee

Mamata Bannerjee has made West Bengal come to a full stop again on the Nandigram issue.

Here is extract from the hindustan times :

Most parts of West Bengal shut down on Wednesday as a dawn-to-dusk protest by the Trinamool Congress over the continuing violence in Nandigram evoked near total response across the state.

In most parts of the state, including Kolkata, shops and business establishments were closed while train services were hit badly.

However, flights operated normally, said airport director VK Monga. Kolkata's metro service also functioned as normal.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee had said on Tuesday that her party would "paralyse" West Bengal on Wednesday for the sake of peace and the right to live in Nandigram -- where trouble continues despite the government scrapping a proposed industrial complex following stiff opposition to the takeover of their land.

Two sides of the Indian Economic Boom

As Moneycontrol.com is reporting the boom side ,

The bull run in the Indian markets continues with Sensex eyeing the 20,000 mark. Nifty has hit 5,900 levels scoring over a double century. Strength is seen coming from all quarters. Cues from Asia and rest of the equity markets were robust which has helped in such a rally.

BBC is reporting the opposite :

Police in the Indian capital Delhi, have prevented tens of thousands of landless farmers and indigenous people from marching to protest at parliament.

Some of the landless have been on a month-long protest to demand land reform and ownership rights laws.

The protesters, mostly low-caste tenant farmers and landless indigenous people, say they have been left behind by India's economic boom.

The government has promised to set up a commission to examine land reform.

link :http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7066884.stm

Obesity 'epidemic' turns global

BBC reports that People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of south and east Asia, a one-day global snapshot shows.

http://stuffedandstarved.org is a blog/book/story of the global food system, about why there are one billion overweight people and 800 million going hungry, and about the millions of people who are fighting back.

Nandigram caught in political crossfire

Mamata Bannerjee is trying to exploit Nandigram for her own political mileage. Fortunately, in Tamilnadu, these sort of politicians who put same side goals are less, and hence we are seeing some progress here and there.

link: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1130477

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Honda too jumps into small car manufacturing in india

It won’t just be Jazz music for Honda in India. Even as it readies to formally premiere the GeNext Jazz at the Tokyo Motor Show, the Japanese auto major is working on a brand new platform for a small car that will use India as the manufacturing hub.

The new platform will be for a global car like all Honda platforms but will be primarily sourced and manufactured out of India. This will be a first for Honda which has a handful of basic platforms worldwide from which it spins out new models.

When contacted, a Honda Siel spokesperson said, “Honda is looking at two cars in the compact segment in the next few years but we don’t have details right now.”

The second small car will, along with the soon-to-debut Jazz, help Honda attack the biggest volume segment in the Indian car market. India’s booming small car market has prompted Honda to start work on a new car platform which will help it fight best-selling models like the Hyundai Santro and Maruti Alto.

Larry Lessig on Corruption

Larry Lessig, is a leading thinker and activist. He says, " In US , so much of politics is determined by money". As Americanism, is spreading its wings in India also, his views are very much relevant in India.

Winds of Change

Here is yet another indication that India is rising indeed:

The career choice of the current youth has changed from the default software jobs to other careers which mix work and pleasure - such as travel, hospitality, media etc.

Here is a report summary from the Hindu

Hotel management and aeronautical engineering are emerging as most sought after disciplines in the broadening spectrum of career choices among Indian students.

Even though higher education preferences continue to be dictated by engineering, medical streams, IT and business administration, the areas of hotel management and aeronautics are earning increased patronage among Indian students, says Siddharth Jain, chief (marketing), Global Events and Expositions which organised a two-day Education Worldwide India in Chennai last week.

Animation and design, pilot and air-hostess training and marine engineering are also moving up the ladder of choice, trends indicate.

The education show fielded 45 participants, including 16 foreign institutions. The next edition of the India International Education Fair due in November, in Chennai, will have more participants, going by the success of the event, organisers said.

The Simpsons on outsourcing

Outsourcing the outsourced

Indian Companies are now outsourcing some of the IT work it gets to smaller US states and other countries.

link: India tries outsourcing its outsourcing

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