Russia-Ukraine war: External affairs minister S Jaishankar told Rajya Sabha that the evacuation efforts were undertaken at a time when artillery shelling and airstrikes on Ukrainian cities were underway.
Category: NRI’s
** Indian restaurant Saathiya in Kyiv becomes shelter home; owner wins applause
Gujarat’s Manish Dave, 52, has won hearts for opening his restaurant door to Kyiv residents facing an unprecedented crisis as Russia ups its offensive against Ukraine.
Indian restaurant Saathiya was started for Indian students studying in Ukraine, and now before it could make a full-fledged run, the war broke out and now it is a safehouse for anyone who wants a respite from the airstrike, shelling, and a hot meal.
Gujarat / Ukraine
** Pricol partners with US-based company
utomotive technology major Pricol has announced a strategic technology partnership with Sibros Technologies, a California-based company that provides Over-the-Air (OTA) connected vehicle software systems for OEMs worldwide.
A press release from Pricol said the partnership is to deliver deep connected vehicle solutions in Indian and ASEAN markets.
The connected, all-in-one platform of Sibros will complement Pricol’s suite of products on Driver Information Systems (DIS) and telematics.
Vikram Mohan, Managing Director of Pricol said, “Connectivity and innovative mobility services are critical components of our strategy to enable software-powered products and solutions for our customers. We believe that the next generation of connected vehicles will be software and data-intensive, and will require a comprehensive suite of cloud and in-vehicle software to introduce new features and keep them updated to maximise performance, efficiency, safety and security. In Sibros, we have found an ideal partner who brings the best of Connected Vehicle suite of solutions with a global perspective.”
Pricol is a very strong player in the Indian market, and we intend to bring together complementary products, strong domain expertise, cutting edge technologies and qualified teams to create deep connected vehicle solutions,” said Hemant Sikaria, CEO and Co-Founder of Sibros Technologies, in the press release
Tamil Naduj / US
** Roll call at Indian restaurants abroad
MTR in London, Sona in New York, Tres Ind in Dubai — with more Indian restaurants opening internationally.
Spanking new openings, however, are reporting housefuls every day, from Sona (Priyanka Chopra’s New York restaurant), MTR and Chourangi in London (the latter being Anjan Chatterjee’s Calcutta special eatery), to Très Ind in Dubai — not new but newly anointed as the number four swish space on the prestigious World’s 50 Best in MENA (Middle East North Africa). What is the reality behind the scenes? Are they finding it tougher to get staff, or is the new world order seeing (or expecting) easier hires from India, as countries with shortages make work visas easier?
** Tier I investor visa, recently scrapped by UK, has helped 254 Indian millionaires, including Nirav Modi
According to a report released by a UK-based anti-corruption charity, Indians have ranked as the 7th nationality of the super-rich to have availed this visa between 2008 to 2020.
According to a report released by a UK-based anti-corruption charity, Indians have ranked as the 7th nationality of the super-rich to have availed this visa between 2008 to 2020.
** As scholar, critic, translator Gayatri Spivak turns 80, an extract from an exhilarating 1998 speech
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.
Spivak, well known for her translation of Derrida as also some works of Mahasweta Devi, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in 1997
I am deeply honoured that the Sahitya Akademi have decided to acknowledge my efforts to translate the fiction of Mahasweta Devi.
I want to begin by thanking Mahasweta Devi for writing such spectacular prose. I want to thank my parents, Pares Chandra Chakravorty and Sivani Chakravorty for bringing me up in a household that was acutely conscious of the riches of Bangla. My father was a doctor. But we children were always reminded that my father’s Bangla essay for his matriculation examination had been praised by Tagore himself.
Meet Anna Menon, crew member of SpaceX mission and wife of Kerala-origin astronaut candidate
One of the crew members of SpaceX is Anna Menon, wife of Malayali medical expert Dr Anil Menon.
Dr Anil Menon who is based in Minnesota in the US, is an expert who is set to be part of future US space missions organised by NASA.
Kerala / USA
** The music and the memory
The story of a man who made a business of recording the music of the past.
The Indian in the United States — nostalgic and out of place — was homesick. It was a sentiment that Atanu Biswas, formerly of Calcutta, then of Newark in the US, understood well. And it was to cater to
his compatriots that the research chemist launched Biswas Records in 1994.
Biswas Records filled this gap. The logo of a Bengal School-influenced line drawing of a traditionally-dressed Indian woman holding a lit lamp with Biswas written at the bottom was always found in abundance at major Durga Pujas across the US, from Boston to San Francisco. A passion project for Atanu, whose day job involves trying to turn soya bean products into biodegradable packaging for FMCG, and his wife Sheena, Biswas Records produced more than 175 albums of Bengali as well as north Indian classical music till 2005.
West Bengal / USA
** Indian-origin cop in short-list to be Scotland Yard chief
Neil Basu, an Indian-origin British police officer, is widely believed in political and media circles to be in a short-list of candidates who could become the next London Metropolitan Police Commissioner or chief of the hallowed Scotland Yard.
** APNRT Society uniting Telugu diaspora worldwide: Minister
‘It has helped many migrants with investment guidance and orientation’
Minister for Industries, Commerce, IT and Skill Development Mekapati Goutham Reddy on Sunday hailed the Andhra Pradesh Non-Resident Telugu (APNRT) Society in the UAE for doing a good job of uniting the Telugu diaspora worldwide and providing them a platform to engage with Andhra Pradesh.
Speaking at a Telugu Diaspora Dinner organised on the sidelines of Dubai Expo 2020, organised with the help of APNRT Association in Dubai and across the Emirates, the Minister said the NRT Society had been assisting the Telugu diaspora in investment guidance, emergency assistance, orientation for migrants and educating them on the AP Policy NRI Cell.