Dharamshala India five days.
Spend two days with Tibetans and three days with Himachal natives.See how lives have changed in last 50 years.
Study Haryana Khap
and unusual justice in free India with relationship to british india.
Study hindu muslim inter marriages and status of family in interfaith marriages.
Temple and mosque disputes all over India.
Best of acceptance and tolerance all over India.
Muslims of Kota and
muslims of Panjab(India)
Traditions of nomads of Rajasthan.
Hill people who are nomads and come to pathankot
Hindus of sindh who migrated recently
Showing posts with label India visit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India visit. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
visiting India
on my itinary for India
border villages in india for the route at partition
velur math
banglore
madras
delhi
bhilwara and villages in area and chitor
Jaipur foot and wheel chairs
Assam Dr Datta
Best foods of several towns
Southern state houses in delhi
border villages in india for the route at partition
velur math
banglore
madras
delhi
bhilwara and villages in area and chitor
Jaipur foot and wheel chairs
Assam Dr Datta
Best foods of several towns
Southern state houses in delhi
Monday, December 13, 2010
a note to my daughter on her visit to India.
India birthplace of her father and all his ancestors is an old civilization.
India is birth place for four major religions.Hinduism,Budhism,Sikhism,Jainism.India has largest population of muslims in a non Muslim country.Judaism,Christianity and Zoroastrians and Baha'i have flourished in India .It is multi cultural,multi ethnic and multi linguist country with Hindu majority.Sikh is the prime minister and a catholic woman born in Italy is the leader of ruling party.Woman president,speaker of parliament,chief foreign secretary.Has woman ambassador to most important diplomatic post ambassador to USA.
In India and USA we speak English as we both are former British colonies.
India and China are most populous countries in the world wit populations around 1.2 billion.
India is emerging economic power.With English as language,democracy as the politics and tradition of strong family ties is gearing towards improving its standard of living and join the world community to tackle problems.
Traditionally USA has been India's largest trading partner but in last two years China and UAE have become largest traders with India .Lot of India's exports to china have been raw materials and have been importing Chinese trinkets and other manufactured goods.
As American we have to make sure that we improve on the trade with India and remain .Number one trading partner of this vital nation.We need to have more trade when trade is expanding.
There is hunger for US know how and need for Infrastructure development their.In the new economic order we can not sell high labor cost goods to Poor countries .But we all can benefit by being part of development by investing capital and technology in India and even creating products and services at lower cost for the rest of the world.
It will be important that balance of trade among nations be at parity.For that reason alone we can not continue to import finished goods from China at the level we have been doing as it seems we will never be able to sell and compete with lower cost of Chinese products.
Our solutions is sell technology and infrastructure to India and develop its capacity .This can be done in a way that trade will be in balance.
We should remove export barriers in technologies to India and develop a business partnership which expands to security partnership.
India and US both can not afford to spend unreasonable resources on defense and by co-operating these two largest of democracies can reduce defense cost and solve security problems in the world.We will also have to use our economic tools as part of our diplomacy otherwise we will find ourselves at disadvantage against China and others.
Chandigarh ,
it is the first totally designed city on The foothills of Himalaya.It is capital of two states Punjab and Haryana.only 130 mile from Delhi the capital of India.
Chandigarh is the first city in India to be smoke free.There is a fine for smoking in public.In Sikh religion it is forbidden to smoke.I do not know the reasoning.
City was built as Capital of Punjab after partition of India.There was temple to Goddess Chandi so the name fort of Chandi(translation of Chandigarh).Chandigarh has highest per capita income of about 3000 dollars per person.
Chandigarh has one of the highest real estate prices .Some residential lots of 500 square meters have sold for million US dollars.
It is university town with a large number premium colleges and institutes of learning.
Being capital of two states and large number of universities and colleges and high court ,it is the intellectual capital for four states and important military post for support of northern frontier posts.
It is 150 mile from New Delhi.
India is birth place for four major religions.Hinduism,Budhism,Sikhism,Jainism.India has largest population of muslims in a non Muslim country.Judaism,Christianity and Zoroastrians and Baha'i have flourished in India .It is multi cultural,multi ethnic and multi linguist country with Hindu majority.Sikh is the prime minister and a catholic woman born in Italy is the leader of ruling party.Woman president,speaker of parliament,chief foreign secretary.Has woman ambassador to most important diplomatic post ambassador to USA.
In India and USA we speak English as we both are former British colonies.
India and China are most populous countries in the world wit populations around 1.2 billion.
India is emerging economic power.With English as language,democracy as the politics and tradition of strong family ties is gearing towards improving its standard of living and join the world community to tackle problems.
Traditionally USA has been India's largest trading partner but in last two years China and UAE have become largest traders with India .Lot of India's exports to china have been raw materials and have been importing Chinese trinkets and other manufactured goods.
As American we have to make sure that we improve on the trade with India and remain .Number one trading partner of this vital nation.We need to have more trade when trade is expanding.
There is hunger for US know how and need for Infrastructure development their.In the new economic order we can not sell high labor cost goods to Poor countries .But we all can benefit by being part of development by investing capital and technology in India and even creating products and services at lower cost for the rest of the world.
It will be important that balance of trade among nations be at parity.For that reason alone we can not continue to import finished goods from China at the level we have been doing as it seems we will never be able to sell and compete with lower cost of Chinese products.
Our solutions is sell technology and infrastructure to India and develop its capacity .This can be done in a way that trade will be in balance.
We should remove export barriers in technologies to India and develop a business partnership which expands to security partnership.
India and US both can not afford to spend unreasonable resources on defense and by co-operating these two largest of democracies can reduce defense cost and solve security problems in the world.We will also have to use our economic tools as part of our diplomacy otherwise we will find ourselves at disadvantage against China and others.
Chandigarh ,
it is the first totally designed city on The foothills of Himalaya.It is capital of two states Punjab and Haryana.only 130 mile from Delhi the capital of India.
Chandigarh is the first city in India to be smoke free.There is a fine for smoking in public.In Sikh religion it is forbidden to smoke.I do not know the reasoning.
City was built as Capital of Punjab after partition of India.There was temple to Goddess Chandi so the name fort of Chandi(translation of Chandigarh).Chandigarh has highest per capita income of about 3000 dollars per person.
Chandigarh has one of the highest real estate prices .Some residential lots of 500 square meters have sold for million US dollars.
It is university town with a large number premium colleges and institutes of learning.
Being capital of two states and large number of universities and colleges and high court ,it is the intellectual capital for four states and important military post for support of northern frontier posts.
It is 150 mile from New Delhi.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Obama in India 11/7/10
Obama is doing everything the great symbolism requires of an American president in developing great relations with largest democracy India.He is in the land of His Hero Gandhi and he makes a connection with other icon King in this land.
In delivery he will fall short of what George W Bush was able to do for India a full partnership in the nuclear energy club.With in ten years India will have enough electricity and increased demand for power.That itself will double the production of factories and people in the nation. Shortage of power because of lack of technology has kept India's progress in check now it is more likely to open up that field.
Now for Obama the question is what he could have done which would have made the relationship of the two countries at a level where it would make a difference in the life of ordinary Indians.Water and sewage are two fields where America with great experience and technology can help India to a great degree.
Interest free loans for ten years of ten Billion Dollars to be executed in next three years would have provided water and sewage to masses and development opportunities to both economies. With delivery of these services general health of the poor would improve and net benefit to several hundred million would be immense in economic and human terms.
Nixon is known in the History of China USA relations as a crtical Contributor for the development of China and trade relations with United States.History will look at W Bush as the personality of similar importance in regards to relations with India.In energy starved India bringing India in the maine stream of nuclear producers will give it what it needed.A republican president was able to wipe unjust policies of many administrations and bring democratic and largest democracy in the world from a regime of isolation to a regime of goodwill and friendship.
In this round of Indo US talks i do not think any major landmark deals would be made but the progress will be made in direction of more co-operation and low key negotiations with better understanding for each others positions.I wish Mr Obama had to offer some grand plan for India's poor.US could also plan to use Indias large human pool to solve world problems at more cost effective way than we acan do with our own man power.
Thanks to Mr Obama for keeping the tone of visit upbeat.I understand his arrival and all other public events are being covered in the media with importance they deserve. This should provide a rest to Obama's from election dregery.
In delivery he will fall short of what George W Bush was able to do for India a full partnership in the nuclear energy club.With in ten years India will have enough electricity and increased demand for power.That itself will double the production of factories and people in the nation. Shortage of power because of lack of technology has kept India's progress in check now it is more likely to open up that field.
Now for Obama the question is what he could have done which would have made the relationship of the two countries at a level where it would make a difference in the life of ordinary Indians.Water and sewage are two fields where America with great experience and technology can help India to a great degree.
Interest free loans for ten years of ten Billion Dollars to be executed in next three years would have provided water and sewage to masses and development opportunities to both economies. With delivery of these services general health of the poor would improve and net benefit to several hundred million would be immense in economic and human terms.
Nixon is known in the History of China USA relations as a crtical Contributor for the development of China and trade relations with United States.History will look at W Bush as the personality of similar importance in regards to relations with India.In energy starved India bringing India in the maine stream of nuclear producers will give it what it needed.A republican president was able to wipe unjust policies of many administrations and bring democratic and largest democracy in the world from a regime of isolation to a regime of goodwill and friendship.
In this round of Indo US talks i do not think any major landmark deals would be made but the progress will be made in direction of more co-operation and low key negotiations with better understanding for each others positions.I wish Mr Obama had to offer some grand plan for India's poor.US could also plan to use Indias large human pool to solve world problems at more cost effective way than we acan do with our own man power.
Thanks to Mr Obama for keeping the tone of visit upbeat.I understand his arrival and all other public events are being covered in the media with importance they deserve. This should provide a rest to Obama's from election dregery.
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