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February 23, 2013 Leave a comment
Ever wondered how much it costs to have a branded food stall at a wedding?Well here are some figures to give you an idea:
A parlour of Haagen-Dazs costs 5-8 lakhs per evening
A Costa Coffee Bar costs about 3 lakhs.
February 23, 2013 1 Comment
Melting down old jewellery,utensils and coins to fashion new jewellery is old hat in India.Local craftsmen do this routinely as their customers periodically refashion their jewellery.
But in the last few years,the higher bullion prices have made melting old zari,a profitable source of recycled precious metals.Hence the increasing popularity of buying old silk saris these days.‘Zari’,for the uninitiated, is silk thread, twisted with a thin silver wire and then gilded with gold.It is interleaved with the silk weave to create the designs or motifs on sarees like the Kancheevaram.
As an aside, in case you are thinking of buying/selling zari items here is some useful information :By custom, 1 Kg of zari would have approximately 500 gms of pure silver, around 5-51/2 Gms of gold.The cost of the saree depends on the purity of the zari. But now a days the quantity of pure metal used is less – only 420 to 470 grams of silver and 3 to 3.5 grams of gold.And if you go for the gold standard in hand loom silks, as per the Geographical Indication (GI) label, a Kancheevaram saree should have 57% silver and 0.6% gold in the Zari. The Tamil Nadu State government has relaxed this ruling to 40% silver and 0.5% gold,to protect weavers in the face of the increased price of bullion.So good luck haggling for the recyclable metal. Read more of this post
February 22, 2013 4 Comments
Think as a farmer does to realise your dreams: act, wait, harvest.
Here is some excellent advice from Alex:
Dreams are seeds waiting to be planted in the field of life.Think as a farmer does to realise your dreams: act, wait, harvest.
Take action to achieve the dream.
Sow nothing get nothing. Do nothing get nothing. A farmer won’t grow a harvest if they plant no seed. Your dream has to be seeded by taking action.
Be patient.
There is no such thing as instant grow seeds. Seeds sown in spring wont be ready to harvest until many months later in late summer. Once the seeds are sown nature takes its own course, patience is required.
Seize the opportunity.
You have put in the work, you have waited patiently and now you harvest the results. Once the crop is ready it has to be harvested, waiting too long the harvest is lost. Regret follows those that despite initial good effort failed to seize the opportunity to make their dream a reality at the harvest time.
February 17, 2013 5 Comments
I spent the day at the hp Connected Music IndiBlogger Meet held at Otto Infinito in the BKC. As this was my first blogger meet,I was just looking to see what was what.
I expected to meet other bloggers.And in a way I did.Unfortunately I found the time allotted to interact with each other severely limited.Shaking hands,mumbling greetings and introductions and scribbling on each others’ cards in a few seconds is hardly conducive to getting to know anybody.And it had the feel of one of those networking parties where everyone glues on a fake smile and shakes hands and tries to look interested while their eyes are darting over to the next quarry.Without the cement of genuine feelings networking doesn’t count for anything.Out of the 160 participants.I doubt if I can recall the names,faces and blog details of more than a dozen people and I think that’s a pity.On the bright side,I met a school mate after 19 years.I guess that counts for a lot.In the midst of a group of people both younger and older than me,it helped me get a sense of travelling in a cohort.I value my connections from school a lot more now,than I did at 15,when crossing the next frontier was more important than enjoying what I had at hand. Read more of this post
February 16, 2013 1 Comment
We are mostly familiar with the tented city with basic infrastructure that springs up in Allahabad each Kumbha Mela.
But some entrepreneurs have done well by providing more luxurious accommodation and services,Here are 3 examples:
The Lakshmi Kutir Cottages, marketed by Cox and Kings is one such example.Entrepreneur Dhruv Singh’s aunt Lakshmi Singh, who stays in a Haridwar ashram, was keen for someone to offer a nice place where devotees of various saints can come and stay comfortably. Dhruv Singh, who runs wildlife cottages in MP and Rajasthan, was game and set up 50 luxury tents, six of which are air-conditioned with wooden floorings. Lakshmi Kutir charges Rs 6,000-Rs 28,500 per night and is situated just outside the main Mela area on a small hillock from where guests can have a panoramic view of the Mela. An in-residence Ayurveda doctor offers herbal treatments and massages. The guests include a 40-member group from Harvard University, which comprises of their alumni, students and professors who have come to study the lessons offered by the Kumbh Mela. Read more of this post
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