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  • India's best city to live in is ....

    The business magazine I used to work for brings out a annual survey on India's Best Cities for Business . However have always wondered which is India's best city to live in ? The city has to have a combination of good quality of life AND business/economic opportunities. The city I grew up in...
    Posted to Down South (Weblog) Posted by Venkatesha Babu on 10-05-2008
  • ...Ghostly trouble at Bangalore Airport.....

    The Bangalore International Airport since it started functioning in May has been in the news all for the wrong reasons. As if it's regulatory and managerial problems were not enough, there is this rather silly story of the Airport Ghost circulating around. More than the ghost causing alleged problems...
    Posted to Down South (Weblog) Posted by Venkatesha Babu on 09-30-2008
  • Is there a bias against developing world science?

    Last week a four-nation study in Nature Reviews Genetics stressed how genomic medicine can empower developing countries to provide affordable healthcare to its people. It mentioned the Indian study, which was first announced in April and is the largest genetic mapping study done anywhere in the world...
    Posted to Lab Rats (Weblog) Posted by Seema Singh on 09-23-2008
  • Bangalore's Black Friday : A wake up call

    The serial, low intensity blasts in the city, luckliy hasn't done significant physical and fiscal damage but the psychological damage might be more long lasting. Inspite of the doubling of population in the last 10 years and phenemonal growth witnessed thereof, the tech city has always had a laidback...
    Posted to Down South (Weblog) Posted by Venkatesha Babu on 07-25-2008
  • Outsource traffic management in cities

    This morning I took an hour to do a 9 km journey from my home to the office. Nothing unique in it. Lakhs of commuters on Indian roads across all cities be it Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Hyderabad suffer similar fate. Indian cities are increasingly becoming dysfunctional. There is no magic solution...
    Posted to Down South (Weblog) Posted by Venkatesha Babu on 06-12-2008
  • Reality about Realty

    Last week the Bangalore chapter of CREDAI, Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associaition of India, announced that prices of apartments in the city would be increased by 3-7%. CREDAI members even said that demand was roboust and claimed there would be no impact on offtake. Sounds a bit surprising...
    Posted to Down South (Weblog) Posted by Venkatesha Babu on 06-05-2008
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