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Musings from Chennai
Written on 6 Nov, 2010 at 17:00 in English, India, Singapore, miniNews | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Deepika Shetty on why the cell phone is an essential survival tool in India.
Forget your email, fall in love with your cell phone.
Ryan Ang gave me this much needed India survival tip on my second day in Chennai.
The extremely helpful Chennai-based centre director (South Asia) of International Enterprise Singapore talked at length about the cell phone or mobile revolution. Sitting with a box full of name cards at...
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Missing his ‘punishment’
Written on 5 Nov, 2010 at 17:00 in English, India, Singapore, miniNews | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Deepika Shetty catches up with a Singaporean who misses the chaos of his hardship posting in India after a nine-year stint.
Name: M.M. Kunasekaran
Age: 58. Married to Vijayalaksumi, 57. Has two children, daughter Kavitha, 26 and son Kesavan, 30.
City: Chennai
Designation: Director, South Asia, MIQ Logistics
A 'punishment' posting.
That was Mr M.M.Kunasekaran's first reaction when he was asked to go to India by his employer in 2001.
From India To Africa
Written on 4 Nov, 2010 at 23:41 in English, India, Singapore, miniNews | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Deepika Shetty meets a Singaporean who moves to Hyderabad to get in touch with her Indian roots.
Name: Kalyani Sukumar Iyer
Age: 27, Single
City: Was in Hyderabad, now on a project in Ghana, West Africa and Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa.
Ms Kalyani Sukumar Iyer wit hhandmade motocycle toys she got from the villages in India. -- ST PHOTO: MARYANNE TAN
Designation: Microfinance and mobile...
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‘Where do you want to go?’
Written on 25 Jun, 2010 at 2:30 in English, India, Singapore, miniNews | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Nilanjana Sengupta on the recent hike in auto rickshaw fares in India.
AS A mode of transport it is noisy, bumpy and hardly offers any protection from the sun, wind and rain. Yet millions of Indians depend on the auto-rickshaw to take them from place to place.
The three-wheelers, also known as the tuc-tuc in Bangkok and Bajaj in Jakarta, are cheaper than taxis and...
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