Viren D'sa, Founder & CEO, Zamorin of Bombay at TiECON 2017 on Experiential Tourism
Viren D'sa, Founder & CEO, Zamorin of Bombay at TiECON 2017 on Experiential Tourism
Intro to India
A snippet into Understanding India as a destination to do Business with. Under the Brand Zamorin of Bombay
Touch of Bollywood in Mumbai
Impromptu performance in a slum
Soaking in the vineyards of India
Taking in the view at the sula vineyards of Nashik on the outskirts of Bombay
Unique housing in Dharavi Slums
Our German clients were fascinated by the design tastes of the slum dwellers of Dharavi
Pandva caves in Nashik(2)
1st century Buddhist caves hidden in the western mountaneous region of India
Celebrating Friendship Day in Dharavi Slums
Our clients got to experience the friendly nature and love first hand in the heart of the slums of Bombay.
Pandva caves in Nashik(1)
1st century Buddhist caves hidden in the western mountaneous region of India
AROUND THE WORLD IN 90 YEARS:THE LIFE & TIMES OF M.A. VELLODI -1/2
AROUND THE WORLD IN 90 YEARS:THE LIFE & TIMES OF M.A. VELLODI -1/2
(Programme on Doordarshan Malayalam, 2011)
Diplomat, international civil servant, scientist, great supporter of social causes -- his is a life that spans countries and continents, commercial, public and social enterprise, towering personalities and epochal events; starting 80 years ago in Kottakal, Kerala.
Born into the zamorin family in Kottakal, Mr Vellodi was educated in Kerala, Bangalore and Madras. He graduated from the Loyola College, Madras and went on to do research in Chemistry at the Presidency College. After completing his education, Mr. Vellodi joined the Imperial Chemical Industries and served in Bombay, Manchester and Madras.
Thereafter Mr. Vellodi joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1948 and after a long and distinguished career, retired in1979 as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of External Affairs.
His life has taken him to England, Switzerland, Pakistan, Indo-China, Tanganyika, Mongolia and the United Nations, to name a few places.
High Commissioner to Tanganyika, a posting to the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations and a deputation to the United Nations Secretariat, are only some of the roles he has held. The people he has met in the course of his career are iconic -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Pandit Nehru, U Thant (UN Sec Gen), Krishna Menon, Julius Nyerere,Indira Gandhi, Morarji Desai.
Gamely supported, encouraged and influenced by his wife Kamala through his long and eventful life, the couple wherever they were always engaged in social sector related activities. Kamala Vellodi obtained a degree in working with the blind and the deaf from the Columbia University and worked both in New York at the Institute for the Blind and later in Chennai, India at the Little Flower Convent. A passionate teacher and a good writer, with a great fondness for music, she passed away in December 2007.
Aravind Vellodi is lucky to have his lifelong medical dreams fulfilled - in the successful career of his son Dr. Ashok Vellodi - a leading figure in the world of medical genetics!
To quote Mr Vellodi himself, I have lived a full and exciting life. I would not have had it any other way. It was a life full of lively chapters, characters and challenges. It was a life different in scope and content from the normally recognised and accepted life and work of a diplomat. It was a life with varied and engaging overtones and I relished every moment of it.
It is this zest for life that still keeps him going strong at 90, when most of us would have hung up our boots and sought the comfort of our armchairs. At 90, he is still a guiding force for the many people and social organizations that he is involved with. Not a moment wasted, hundreds of lives touched.
What more should a life be?
Lifting a cannon at Sion Fort
Kids from the Neev Intl school in Bangalore tried their best to lift a British era cannon at the Sion Fort.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 90 YEARS:THE LIFE & TIMES OF M.A. VELLODI -2/2
AROUND THE WORLD IN 90 YEARS:THE LIFE & TIMES OF M.A. VELLODI -2/2
(Programme on Doordarshan Malayalam, 2011)
Diplomat, international civil servant, scientist, great supporter of social causes -- his is a life that spans countries and continents, commercial, public and social enterprise, towering personalities and epochal events; starting 80 years ago in Kottakal, Kerala.
Born into the zamorin family in Kottakal, Mr Vellodi was educated in Kerala, Bangalore and Madras. He graduated from the Loyola College, Madras and went on to do research in Chemistry at the Presidency College. After completing his education, Mr. Vellodi joined the Imperial Chemical Industries and served in Bombay, Manchester and Madras.
Thereafter Mr. Vellodi joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1948 and after a long and distinguished career, retired in1979 as Secretary to the Government of India in the Ministry of External Affairs.
His life has taken him to England, Switzerland, Pakistan, Indo-China, Tanganyika, Mongolia and the United Nations, to name a few places.
High Commissioner to Tanganyika, a posting to the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations and a deputation to the United Nations Secretariat, are only some of the roles he has held. The people he has met in the course of his career are iconic -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Pandit Nehru, U Thant (UN Sec Gen), Krishna Menon, Julius Nyerere,Indira Gandhi, Morarji Desai.
Gamely supported, encouraged and influenced by his wife Kamala through his long and eventful life, the couple wherever they were always engaged in social sector related activities. Kamala Vellodi obtained a degree in working with the blind and the deaf from the Columbia University and worked both in New York at the Institute for the Blind and later in Chennai, India at the Little Flower Convent. A passionate teacher and a good writer, with a great fondness for music, she passed away in December 2007.
Aravind Vellodi is lucky to have his lifelong medical dreams fulfilled - in the successful career of his son Dr. Ashok Vellodi - a leading figure in the world of medical genetics!
To quote Mr Vellodi himself, I have lived a full and exciting life. I would not have had it any other way. It was a life full of lively chapters, characters and challenges. It was a life different in scope and content from the normally recognised and accepted life and work of a diplomat. It was a life with varied and engaging overtones and I relished every moment of it.
It is this zest for life that still keeps him going strong at 90, when most of us would have hung up our boots and sought the comfort of our armchairs. At 90, he is still a guiding force for the many people and social organizations that he is involved with. Not a moment wasted, hundreds of lives touched.
What more should a life be?
Portuguese India | Wikipedia audio article
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Portuguese India
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The State of India (Portuguese: Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Estado Português da Índia, EPI) or simply Portuguese India (Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Overseas Empire, founded six years after the discovery of a sea route between Portugal and the Indian Subcontinent to serve as the governing body of a string of Portuguese fortresses and colonies overseas.
The first viceroy, Francisco de Almeida, established his headquarters in Cochin (Cochim, Kochi). Subsequent Portuguese governors were not always of viceroy rank. After 1510, the capital of the Portuguese viceroyalty was transferred to Goa. Until the 18th century, the Portuguese governor in Goa had authority over all Portuguese possessions in the Indian Ocean, from southern Africa to southeast Asia. In 1752 Mozambique got its own separate government and in 1844 the Portuguese Government of India stopped administering the territory of Macau, Solor and Timor, and its authority was confined to the colonial holdings on the Malabar coast of present-day India.
At the time of the British Indian Empire's dissolution in 1947, Portuguese India was subdivided into three districts located on modern-day India's western coast, sometimes referred to collectively as Goa: namely Goa; Daman (Portuguese: Damão), which included the inland enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli; and Diu. Portugal lost effective control of the enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in 1954, and finally the rest of the overseas territory in December 1961, when it was taken by India after military action. In spite of this, Portugal only recognised Indian control in 1975, after the Carnation Revolution and the fall of the Estado Novo regime.
Colonial India | Wikipedia audio article
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Colonial India
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Colonial India was the part of the Indian subcontinent which was under the jurisdiction of European colonial powers, during the Age of Discovery. European power was exerted both by conquest and trade, especially in spices.
The search for the wealth and prosperity of India led to the discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Only a few years later, near the end of the 15th century, Portuguese sailor Vasco da Gama became the first European to re-establish direct trade links with India since Roman times by being the first to arrive by circumnavigating Africa (c. 1497–1499). Having arrived in Calicut, which by then was one of the major trading ports of the eastern world, he obtained permission to trade in the city from Saamoothiri Rajah.
Trading rivalries among the seafaring European powers brought other European powers to India. The Dutch Republic, England, France, and Denmark-Norway all established trading posts in India in the early 17th century. As the Mughal Empire disintegrated in the early 18th century, and then as the Maratha Empire became weakened after the third battle of Panipat, many relatively weak and unstable Indian states which emerged were increasingly open to manipulation by the Europeans, through dependent Indian rulers.
In the later 18th century Great Britain and France struggled for dominance, partly through proxy Indian rulers but also by direct military intervention. The defeat of the redoubtable Indian ruler Tipu Sultan in 1799 marginalised the French influence. This was followed by a rapid expansion of British power through the greater part of the Indian subcontinent in the early 19th century. By the middle of the century the British had already gained direct or indirect control over almost all of India. British India, consisting of the directly-ruled British presidencies and provinces, contained the most populous and valuable parts of the British Empire and thus became known as the jewel in the British crown.
Egyptian buying railway tickets in Hindi
This Egyptian client proved his love for India buy volunteering to buy his tickets in the Hindi language which made the staff totally impressed.
Getting blessed in Sanskrit
Our clients got blessed at a private Hindu Ceremony at the Mumbadevi Temple dedicated to the goddess of Mumbai.
First Chat with Ned Bank - My gateway to Public Speaking
My first Video on Introducing India to Ned Bank Representatives from South Africa at the Taj Mahal Palace
Inuagration of TiEcon Mumbai 2022 - India Ahead
TiE Mumbai Board Member, Vijay Shekar Sharma (CEO, PAYtm) & Suhas Patil( Co-Founder, TiE) inaugurates TiEcon Mumbai 2022 - India Ahead
Malappuram
Malappuram is a city in the southern Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of 33.61 km2. The first municipality in the district formed in 1970, Malappuram serves as the administrative headquarters of Malappuram district. Divided into 40 electoral wards, the city has a population density of 2,083 per square kilometre. As per the 2011 census Malappuram Urban Agglomeration is the fourth largest urban agglomeration in Kerala state with a total population of 1,698,645. Malappuram is situated 54 km southeast of Calicut, 90 km northwest of Palghat, and 140 km northwest of Coimbatore.
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