Daily Archives: March 10, 2016

T-Hub Charters Global Waters, Signs Pact With Tat Capital

Business & Economy, Science & Technology, World Opinion

Hyderabad :

In order to facilitate trade and investment between Australia, New Zealand and the Indian subcontinent, the country’s largest start-up incubator T Hub here on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tat Capital, a corporate advisory firm.

The MoU facilitates T-Hub’s start-ups access with Tat Capital’s global family office and investor network, connects T-Hub’s start-ups with globally recognised Australian growth companies with next generation innovations to explore acquisition, partnerships and strategic investment ideas, and connects T-Hub’s start-up and VC community with Australian VC, private equity and family office investors to cross-pollinate ideas, technology and capital between the regions.

Speaking on the ocassion, Jay Krishnan, CEO, T-Hub said, “Entrepreneurs are always breaking boundaries and this is another geographical barrier that we hope entrepreneurs in India, especially T-Hub, will cross and help us establish a long standing relationship with Australia and New Zealand.”

“ This also provides them with an opportunity to sail in uncharted waters. We look forward to this association with Tat Capital.”

Tat Capital co-founder Ram Gorlamandala said the new agreement was testament to the growing interest in cross-border opportunities between the three countries.

“India is a natural fit in many ways for Australian business, and vice versa,” he said.

“In recent times we haven’t seen the level of interest in India that it warrants, but this is changing rapidly,” he added.

The MoU will allow Tat Capital to offer Australian businesses access to Indian expertise from the Indian School of Business, Indian Institute of Information Technology, and the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research.

Australian companies will be able to utilize resources in Indian business, technology, intellectual property and legal frameworks to start or improve their businesses in India.

Tat Capital, along with number of prominent and listed Australian, New Zealand and Indian businesses, will host a business insights tour to Hyderabad next month.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Telangana / by Express News Service / March 08th, 2016

They bear all with a smile

About Telangana, Arts, Culture & Entertainment, Historical Links / Pre-Independence

Daily chores of Gond or Kolam tribe woman starts with fetching water from distant sources, cooking and working in the fields

Gond women cooking at a makeshift kitchen at Jangubai caves in Adilabad district. -Photo: by Arrangement
Gond women cooking at a makeshift kitchen at Jangubai caves in Adilabad district. -Photo: by Arrangement

Adivasi women in Adilabad district, for whom deprivation is a way of life, go about their chores with their humour intact

he smile on their face does not vanish even in the most trying circumstances they encounter every day. The Adivasi women in Adilabad district, for whom deprivation is a way of life, go about their chores with their humour intact.

The day in the life of an average Gond or Kolam tribe woman starts with fetching drinking water from distance sources, cooking and working in the fields by the side of the men in the family. The latter do share the burden of the daily routine, including gathering firewood, but the kitchen is the exclusive preserve of the women.

Festivals and religious events of the aboriginal tribes, like the recently concluded Padmalpuri Kako pilgrimage, the Jangubai festival and Keslapur jatara, is a time when the positive side of these women can be seen distinctly.

They are actually in the forefront of all activity which includes carrying the sacred offerings and cooking food for the entourage on pilgrimage consisting of 10 to 20 families from a given village.

“We cook food at the makeshift kitchens using firewood which we invariably carry with us,” points out Kinaka Rajubai, a Gond woman from Indervelli mandal headquarters as she gives her reason for continuing with the age old practice of cooking on ovens using firewood.

“We even need to grind the food grains using the mortar and pestle though it consumes much time and energy,” she smiles as she apparently recalls the time she spent at the makeshift kitchen at Jangubai caves, a pilgrimage she made earlier this year.

“Only a handful of Adivasi homes boast of an LPG connection and practically none of the food processors like mixers and grinders,” states Pusam Anand Rao, sarpanch of the famous Mallapur village in the same mandal, who incidentally had led his compatriots on the Padmalpuri Kako pilgrimage to Dandepalli mandal last year.

“An LPG connection would definitely be a help to our women,” he asserts as he talks of the hardships that Adivasi women face owing to poverty.

“The incidence of eye diseases among our women seem to be on the rise since the last few years,” adds Atram Bheem Rao, of Salewada in Utnoor mandal. “The eye problems haunt especially those women who are living in the semi pucca Indiramma houses as the lack of vents has the smoke trapped inside,” he points out towards the phenomenon to buttress his contention that Adivasi kitchens need LPG connection.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Telangana / by S. Harpal Singh / March 09th, 2016