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Can a small fishing village transform into world's biggest business centre ? The answer is yes.  Shenzhen used to be a small fishing village on the shore of mainland China, not for away from Hong Kong only 35 years back. Today, it is financial and business capital of China, headquarters of three of world's top mobile handset companies ZTE, Lenevo, Huawei. It boast to be biggest manufacturing hub of China. Other worth mentioning names operating from the city are TCL Corporation, Coolpad, Konka, BYD, Dingoo, Skywork . Globe trotters, who have visited the city in the recent years claim that it outsmart any of the world's biggest or the most beautiful city. Now the question is, how this miracle could be possible within a short span of 35 years ? In the year 1979 Chinese supreme leader Deng Xiaoping began a process of economic reform that kick-started China's complete economic transformation. One year later i.e. in 1980, Shenzhen, nestled just across the border from H...

It is often said that development and environment are two sides of the same kind, so where ever you see the modern kind of development it poses threat to environment. With the result, whole of the seasonal cycle is badly effected. In summer suddenly you feel slice of winter, or winters are prolonged crossing border of Spring. Any body who points finger on mighty people playing with environment is often murdered, threatened, terrorised or tormented. So when I came to know Ramesh Agarwal has received prestigious Goldman Prize which is often called Green Nobel, I felt good. The award recognises and honours heroic grassroots environmentalists around the world. The award is constituted by Goldman Environment Foundation of San Francisco. Now who is Ramesh Agarwal ? He runs a small Internet Cafe in Raipur, capital of Chattisgarh. He founded Jan Chetna , a grassroots movement to protect people and environment from the rampant industrialisation . He started organising  local vil...

Remember, every Yash Chopra film used to have Switzerland in it. Be it a song and dance sequence or without any reason some snow clad peaks, breath taking lakes, scenic meadows from this paradise on earth was there. The captured images of Switzerland in Bollywood movies fascinated Indian middle class so well that comparing to any other European destination, tourist inflow to the country was much higher. That was the Bollywood power. It is not surprising that Swiss Government honoured Yash Chopra with highest decoration for promoting Switzerland. Many other countries around the world followed the suit and were able to have better footfall of Indian tourists. Krish 2 was shot in Singapore and it was sponsored/ heavily subsidised by Singapore Tourism Promotion Board . Karan Jauhar has soft corner for America, take a tour of his movies you may have a complete guidedtour for New York.Tell me honestly, how many Indians knew Spain as a serious Tourism destination, the whole perception chang...

I remember good old days when my grandma used to procure sugarcane juice to prepare vinegar. She used to keep in a airtight jar every day put the jar directly facing sun rays. After two to three months time her sugarcane juice was converted into organic vinegar. She had many of its uses, put small pieces of raw papaya, reddish, green pepper, carrot for some days and voila, a unique pickled stuff ready to be apart of assortment to our main course meal. She also used to prepare vinegar from Jamun, it had some curative value to control sugar level as well as excellent cure for digestion. Gradually, this unique preparation of my grandma  has become a thing of past. Now it is gradually replaced by synthetic vinegar which is predominantly used in chinese recipes. Frankly speaking it lacks the natural curative power inherent in organic sugarcane vinegar, some of them are  listed  :  *  Help apathetic down aging. Antithesis in the body. Get rid of toxin...