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Embassy of India Mexico City
A Monthly Newsletter of Embassy of India, Mexico City Vol. I, No. 5
HOM’s Conference in Delhi
May 2017
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India at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2017 Ratha Yatra Festival in Mexico City
Feria Internacional de las Culturas Amigas
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Satyajit Ray Film Festival at Cineteca Nacional
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In this Issue LEAD STORIES
HOM’s Conference at New Delhi 3 Interaction with Confederation of Indian Industry
India at the 5th session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Cancun Kiren Rijiju to leads Indian Delegation on disaster management to Mexico
BUSINESS
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Oportunidades de diversificación del comercio exterior: India 6 LESCHACO’ seminar on logistics and transport 7 Approach between India and AMPIP 7 Textiles India 2017 8 Habitat Expo 2017 8 Bimbo entra a la India 9
CULTURAL CONNECT
Feria Internacional de las Culturas Amigas 2017 10 Festival Ratha-Yatra CDMX 2017 12 Remembering Rabindranath Tagore 13 Satyajit Ray at Cineteca Nacional 14
Frida Kalho in a sari 17 Delegación de India visita Chichen-Itzá 18
Rueda de prensa por el Día Internacional del Yoga en Cancún 18
MEDIA
India hailed for disaster management plan 19 Disaster mitigation: India working to build up a global coalition 19 Wipro hace de Jalisco su hub principal para América Latina 20 Libros que deberías leer antes de viajar a la India 21
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
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HOM’s Conference in New Delhi
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xternal Affairs Minister Smt. Sushma Swaraj inaugurated the 8th Conference of Head of Missions in New Delhi. The 8th Annual Conference took place from 4 to 6 May, 2017. The theme of this year’s Conference was “Effective Diplomacy, Excellent Delivery”. Key foreign policy issues including India’s engagement with major powers as well as strain in ties with Pakistan and China were discussed in the meet, which was attended by around 120 Indian envoys President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined India’s foreign policy priorities posted worldwide.• as they addressed the participants of the 8th Annual Heads of Missions Conference •
Interaction with Confederation of Indian Industry
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II Interactive Session with Indian Ambassadors and High Commissioners in the Latin American & Caribbean Region to understand the business opportunities in the region was held in India at the beginning of May 2017. Ambassador Pardeshi participated in the meeting and spoke on new opportunities in India-Mexico relations•
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi addressed the Heads of Mission
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India at the 5th session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Cancun
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he world’s foremost gathering on reducing disaster risk and building the resilience of communities and nations, the Global Platform for Disaster Reduction was first held in 2007. It is a biennial forum for information exchange, discussion of latest developments, knowledge and partnership-building across sectors, with the goal of improving implementation of disaster risk reduction through better communication and coordination amongst stakeholders. Its core function is to enable During his visit to Cancun in the framework of the Global Platform UNISDR governments, NGOs, scientists, practitioners, and 2017, India held bilateral meetings with Representatives from Mongolia, UN organizations to share experience and formulate Japan, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Mexico. strategic guidance for the implementation of global disaster risk reduction agreements: the 2005 Hyogo Framework for Action and its post-2015 successor the Sendai Framework. With the 2015 edition rolled into the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. Its fifth session was held in May 2017 in Mexico. Source: https://www.unisdr.org/we/coordinate/global-platform
For the first time, the Platform for Disaster Reduction was carried out outside Geneva, Switzerland. Mexico was the host of the event. The event took place from May 22 to May 26. President Peña Nieto spearheaded the official opening ceremony of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2017, attended by 6,000 representatives from 189 countries. • Source: http://www.gob.mx/presidencia/prensa/
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India was present at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2017, in Cancun. High level Indian Delegation was led by MoS Shri Kiren Rijiju.
Kiren Rijiju to lead Indian delegation on disaster management to Mexico.
Rijuju is expected to chair a special session, after he was designated as Disaster Risk Reduction Champion for Asia Region by the UN office last year. By Kamaljit Kaur Sandhu New Delhi, May 3, 2017
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inister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju will be heading to Cancun in Mexico later this month, leading an Indian delegation to the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR). It will be a small team of roughly four officials comprising of Joint Secretary of Disaster Management and official from NDMA. Rijuju is expected to chair a special session, after he was designated as Disaster Risk Reduction Champion for Asia Region by the UN office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) last year.
The minister is expected to leave on May 20 only to return on May 28. He is likely to address the audience consisting of participants from various countries on urban risk. He will also speak of private players helping in risk management. Before he takes off, however, he will be holding a twoday meet with all the Indian state representatives in a meeting in Vigyan Bhawan on May 15-16. The event itself will cover Multi Hazard Risk Vulnerability Assessment (HRVA), Various measures put in place for promoting measures for risk management, early warning system, integration of communication technology and financing by private players. All this will eventually be part of blue print for the ministry on building a “Resilient India” by 2030• Source: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/kiren-rijiju-indian-delegation-disastermanagement-mexico/1/944920.html
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Artículo completo en: http://centrogilbertobosques.senado.gob. mx/docs/NI_030517_Comercio_MX_India.pdf
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Leschaco’ Seminar on Logistics and Transport
or the tenth time Leschaco Mexicana offered on May 18th, 2017 to Leschaco clients and suppliers the Symposium “Logistics and Transport”. The main objective of this event is to provide an open dialogue about relevant and complex topics within the logistics sector, as well as to find common answers and solutions towards the future. mbassador Muktesh K. Pardeshi participated at the 10th Seminar organized by Leschaco Group in Mexico City on May 18. “India’s future growth: Hurdles and Opportunities” was the title of the Ambassador’s presentation to almost 350 participants from over 120 companies•
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The Leschaco Group is a global logistics service provider that combines Hanseatic tradition with cosmopolitanism and a spirit of innovation. “Experienced. Dedicated. Customized.” This is a fitting summary of the company’s philosophy: On the basis of decade-long experience teams of specialists set up customized solutions. Today the owner-managed medium-sized Company with 42 separate companies and more than 2,000 employees in more than 20 countries is there for its customers worldwide. The own network is further strengthened by selected agents all over the world. We are where the industry and the trade need us.
AMPIP offers business facilities to Indian investors
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mbassador Muktesh Pardeshi was given a briefing on 31 May by the President of the Mexican Association of Private Industrial Parks aiming at fostering relations between Mexican industrial developers and Indian companies•
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he Mexican Association of Industrial Parks (AMPIP) represents owners, investors and managers of parks and industrial buildings before national authorities and investors abroad. As a business organization created in 1986, AMPIP defends the interests of its members, besides promoting best practices in infrastructure, logistics, security, sustainability and social responsibility. All these actions are set in a Code of Ethics based on integrity, transparency, win-win relations, decent work and environmental care. Currently, AMPIP comprises 56 corporate members in the categories of private developers, investment funds, real estate investment trusts (REITS) and state governments’ real estate trusts, which in sum manage 250 industrial parks located throughout the country. In these industrial parks there are about 2,500 domestic and foreign companies installed in more than 20 million square meters of construction, generating 1.7 million direct jobs• Source: http://ampip.org.mx/en/about-us/
Textiles India 2017
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extiles India will be held this year from June 30 to July 2. It is a mega exhibition that showcase the value chain in India. The event provides an excellent platform for B2B interactions and for exploring investments and technological tie-ups across various segments in the textile value chain• For more information, please visit: https://www.textilesindia2017. com/
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Habitat Expo 2017
ndia participated in Habitat Expo 2017, organized at World Trade Center, Mexico City, from 25 to 27 May 2017. Morbi Ceramics Association represented by the Rising Venture Services setup a booth to showcase tiles and other ceramics products of India. Indian delegation also met various chambers like CMIC, INERHM and several companies in Mexico. An informal networking session was also organized on 26 May in the Embassy of India premises•
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Forbes Staff Mayo 25, 2017.
Bimbo entra a la India con compra mayoritaria de Ready Roti
Grupo Bimbo es el socio mayoritario de una empresa india que factura 48 millones de dólares anuales.
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rupo Bimbo ingresó al mercado de la India con la compra mayoritaria de acciones (65%) de Ready Roti India. Esta empresa de panificación es una de las líderes en Nueva Delhi y zonas conurbadas, detalló la compañía que dirige Daniel Servitje en un comunicado enviado a la Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV). Ready produce pan empacado,
bases para pizza, bollería salada y dulce. Su marca insignifa es Harvest gold y selects. Para hacerlo, la firma india cuenta con cuatro plantas y 500 colaboradores. Sus ventas anuales ascienden a 48 millones de dólares (mdd). “Este acuerdo representa la incursión de Grupo Bimbo al mercado indio, fortaleciendo su presencia en mercados emergentes, en línea
con la visión de la Compañía. Los resultados serán consolidados en la región EAA (Europa, Asia y África)”, añadió la compañía mexicana en el documento. Tras difundirse la adquisición, las acciones de Bimbo subían 0.14% a 44.40 pesos por títulos• Source: https://www.forbes.com.mx/ bimbo-entra-a-la-india-compra-readyroti/?platform=hootsuite
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Feria de las Culturas Amigas
El Embajador Muktesh K. Pardeshi asistió a la inauguración de la Feria de las Culturas amigas 2017 en compañía de dignatarios y diplomáticos en el Teatro de la Ciudad para dar inicio al intercambio cultural en el Zócalo y en la Plaza Santo Domingo del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México
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a Feria Internacional de las Culturas Amigas (FICA) es uno de eventos culturales de carácter internacional más importantes de la Ciudad de México, donde sus habitantes y visitantes tienen la posibilidad de conocer más sobre la cultura, tradiciones y costumbres de distintas naciones, mediante la presentación de stands representativos y actividades artísticas. La Feria surgió en el año 2009, como un proyecto de colaboración de la Coordinación General de Asuntos Internacionales del Gobierno de la Ciudad de México con distintas representaciones diplomáticas acreditadas en el país, las cuales
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hicieron muestra de su solidaridad con nuestra capital durante la contingencia sanitaria por el virus de la influenza AH1N1, coyuntura en la cual se buscó mantener e incentivar el aprovechamiento de espacios públicos y el atractivo turístico de la ciudad. Debido al éxito de este proyecto desde su primera edición, la Feria Internacional de las Culturas Amigas se ha convertido en una tradición capitalina celebrada año con año, en un importante espacio de encuentro e intercambio cultural para el creciente número de asistentes y países participantes, así como en una gran oportunidad para la Ciudad de México de
estrechar sus lazos de amistad y cooperación a nivel internacional. La FICA es un proyecto cultural orientado a fortalecer los vínculos de amistad y cooperación entre la Ciudad de México y países de todas las regiones del mundo, a través de la colaboración con sus respectivas Representaciones Diplomáticas. Este año, refuerza su carácter y vocación internacional, innovando propuestas, contenidos y programación que consolidan su reconocimiento como “la gran fiesta multicultural de la Ciudad de México” y, a su vez, la conviertan en un referente de política pública en materia cultural, inclusión social y espacio público•
La India contó también con un stand de productos de origen indio en el Zócalo capitalino, mismo que fue visitado por el Embajador Pardeshi desde el primer día de la Feria de las Culturas Amigas 2017. Sin duda, una ocasión para renovar los lazos de amistad, afinidad entre ambos países; además de ser una vía de difusión cultural para la India.
Más tarde, en el marco de la Feria de las Culturas Amigas 2017, se inauguró el stand de la India en el ala gastronómica en la plaza de Santo Domingo del centro Histórico de la CDMX. El Sr. Embajador Muktesh K. Pardeshi estuvo presente.
La India presentó diferentes números artísticos desde el día de la inauguración de la feria, entre los que destacaron danza Kathak, Odissi y Bollywood. La presentación de danza Kathak, en el marco de la Feria de las Culturas Amigas 2017, fue en las instalaciones del Centro Cultural de España; siendo la maestra del Centro Cultural de la India, Meenal Sajwan, quien se presentó en escena, acompañada por la música del maestro Pandit Radheshyam Sharma, del Centro Cultural de la India Gurudev Tagore, junto con sus alumnos de Tabla.
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Festival Ratha Yatra Ciudad de México 2017
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rrancó el festival Ratha Yatra 2017 en su quinceava edición. El Embajador Muktesh K. Pardeshi estuvo presente en la magna inauguración del evento. El Festival Ratha Yatra Ciudad de México 2017 llega para dar a conocer la cultura hindú con carros alegóricos y performances. En el Festival, tres carruajes de gran tamaño son llevados a través de las calles, jalados por devotos y congregados. Cada uno contiene una deidad diferente: Krishna, Balarama y Subhadra. La temática del año será denomina “Retornando a Nuestras Raíces” involucrando actividades musicales, de danza, baile, teatro y conferencias, así como la repartición de Prasadam. El origen de Ratha-Yatra en India tiene más de 5000 años. Consiste en un festival con desfiles, canto y baile en honor a Krishna. Éste es llevado a cabo en Jagannatha Puri, India; sin embargo, desde hace 41 años se realiza en Guadalajara y desde hace 15, en Ciudad de México. Este año, el desfile del Festival Ratha Yatra en Ciudad de México tuvo lugar los días 20 y 21 de mayo; comenzó en la Glorieta de la Palma, teniendo como destino final el Parque México. El evento tuvo actividades para público de todas las edades; desde área infantil hasta zona VIP. Contó con un salón de cine, área de Yoga, venta de libros, artesanías, así como muestras gastronómicas, además de conferencias que abordaron temáticas diversas (vegetarianismo, karma, reencarnación, meditación para la era moderna, etc.)•
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El origen de RathaYatra en India tiene más de 5000 años. Consiste en un festival con desfiles, canto y baile en honor a Krishna
Remembering Rabindranath Tagore
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abindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenthcentury Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased his interest in social reforms. He also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. From time to time he participated in the Indian nationalist movement, though in his own non-sentimental and visionary way; and Gandhi, the political father of modern India, was his devoted friend. Tagore was knighted by the ruling British Government in 1915, but within a few years he resigned the honour as a protest against British policies in India. Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations of some of his poems he became rapidly known in the West. In fact his fame attained a luminous height, taking him across continents on lecture tours and tours of friendship. For the world he became the voice of India’s spiritual heritage; and for
India, especially for Bengal, he became a great living institution. Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was first of all a poet. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry are Manasi (1890) [The Ideal One], Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat], Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings], Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs], and Balaka (1916) [The Flight of Cranes]. The English renderings of his poetry, which include The Gardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916), and The Fugitive (1921), do not generally correspond to particular volumes in the original Bengali; and in spite of its title, Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), the most acclaimed of them, contains poems from other works besides its namesake. Tagore’s major plays are Raja (1910) [The King of the Dark Chamber], Dakghar (1912) [The Post Office], Achalayatan (1912) [The Immovable], Muktadhara (1922) [The Waterfall], and Raktakaravi (1926) [Red Oleanders]. He is the author of several volumes of short stories and a number of novels, among them Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire (1916) [The Home and the World], and Yogayog (1929) [Crosscurrents]. Besides these, he wrote musical dramas, dance dramas, essays of all types, travel diaries, and two autobiographies, one in his middle years and the other shortly before his death in 1941. Tagore also left numerous drawings and paintings, and songs for which he wrote the music himself• Source: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/ laureates/1913/tagore-bio.html
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Satyajit Ray at Cineteca Nacional
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atyajit Ray, (born May 2, 1921, Calcutta, India—died April 23, 1992, Calcutta), Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who brought the Indian cinema to world recognition with Pather Panchali (1955; The Song of the Road) and its two sequels, known as the Apu Trilogy. As a director Ray was noted for his humanism, his versatility, and his detailed control over his films and their music. He was one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century•
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ay grew up in Calcutta and was looked after by his mother. He entered a government school, where he was taught chiefly in Bengali, and then studied at Presidency College, Calcutta’s leading college, where he was taught in English. By the time he graduated in 1940, he was fluent in both languages. In 1940 his mother persuaded him to attend art school at Santiniketan, Rabindranath Tagore’s rural university northwest of Calcutta. There Ray, whose interests had been exclusively urban and Western-oriented, was exposed to Indian and other Eastern art and gained a deeper appreciation of both Eastern and Western culture, a harmonious combination that is evident in his films.
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ay’s major films about Hindu orthodoxy and feudal values (and their potential clash with modern Western-inspired reforms) include Jalsaghar (1958; The Music Room), an impassioned evocation of a man’s obsession with music; Devi (1960; The Goddess), in which the obsession is with a girl’s divine incarnation; Sadgati (1981; Deliverance), a powerful indictment of caste; and Kanchenjungha (1962), Ray’s first original screenplay and first colour film, a subtle exploration of arranged marriage among wealthy, westernized Bengalis. Shatranj ke Khilari (1977; The Chess Players), Ray’s first film made in the Hindi language, with a comparatively large budget, is an even subtler probing of the impact of the West on India. Set in Lucknow in 1856, just before the Indian Mutiny, it depicts the downfall of the ruler Wajid Ali at the hands of the British with exquisite irony and pathos.
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Frida Kahlo in a sari
Digital publication “Border and Fall” shared a photo on Instagram where she is accompanied by two women on each side.
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photograph of Frida Kahlo has surfaced in which she can be seen wearing a sari, nearly six decades after her death. A lot has been said about Mexican artist and activist Frida Kahlo, but not many know of her sartorial connection with India. Those who follow the eccentric artist are aware that her house in Mexico, La Casa Azul, is a treasure trove of products. But, we weren’t aware that Kahlo also liked to experiment with her style but now a photograph has surfaced in which she can be seen wearing a sari, nearly six decades after her death. Digital publication “Border and Fall” shared a photo on Instagram where she is accompanied by two women on each side. Rumour has it that they are Indian diplomat and politician Vijay Lakshmi Pandit’s daughters and the original picture appeared in a coffee table book. Kahlo can be seen wearing a printed sari with a white blouse and a heavy choker and diamond earrings along with her Indian attire. We always knew that foreign beauties had a fascination with saris, but we never imagined Kahlo sharing the same sentiment• Source: http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/fashion/this-oldphoto-of-frida-kahlo-in-a-sari-will-make-your-day-4650114/
A sari, saree, or shari is a female garment from the Indian subcontinent that consists of a drape varying from five to nine yards (4.5 metres to 8 metres) in length and two to four feet (60 cm to 1.20 m) in breadth that is typically wrapped around the waist, with one end draped over the shoulder, baring the midriff. There are various styles of sari draping, the most common being the Nivi style, which originated in Andhra Pradesh, India. The sari is usually with a fitted upcalled a blouse and choli elseshort sleeves and is midriff. The sari is and is widely reof grace in culsubcontinent•
worn over a petticoat, per garment commonly (ravike in South India where). The blouse has usually cropped at the associated with grace garded as a symbol tures of the Indian
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Delegación de India visita Chichen-Itzá
El Ministro Kiren Rijiju disfrutó de su visita a la zona arqueológica de Chichen-Itzá, al termino del evento de la Plataforma de Reducción de Riesgo, organizado por Naciones Unidas en Cancun, Quintana Roo. En su visita, el Ministro estuvo acompañado por el Embajador Muktesh K. Pardeshi, Embajador de la República de la India en México, además de miembros de la delegación que asisitió a la reunión.
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ueda de Prensa para anunciar la celebración del Día Internacional del Yoga en Cancún, Quintana Roo. En el evento estuvo presente el Embajador Pardeshi, el Honorable Cónsul de la India en Cancún, Sr. Rafael Aguirre Gómez, y el Secretario de Turismo de Quintana Roo, Frank López Reyes. El evento tendrá lugar el 17 de junio de este año, en Playa Delfines. Se espera la asistencia de la comunidad de la India en Cancún, junto con profesionales y seguidores del yoga en la región•
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Disaster mitigation: India working to build up a global coalition Pradeep Thakur| TNN | May 27, 2017.
India hailed for disaster management plan Pradeep Thakur| TNN | May 25, 2017.
Cancun: India has come in for praise at the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction for being the first country to draw up a national plan and a local strategy for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and for having made significant progress in its commitments to bring down disaster losses and check climate change. Representatives of 176 countries, including more than 50 ministers and at least seven heads of state, are attending the global platform, organized by the UN’s Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). The Indian delegation is led by minister of state for home Kiren Rijiju and comprises a high-level team from the PMO and the home ministry, including the PM’s additional principal secretary P K Mishra. India is leading a global intervention to bring down disaster losses which pushes more than 26 million people hit by natural calamities into abject poverty every year . The UN’s DRR meet in Cancun is seen as the most important global event after the Paris climate change conference of 2015 where countries will show their progress made on the Sendai declaration which binds all signatory UN nations to bring down disaster related deaths and implement the roadmap agreed upon by 2030. India is the only country which has drawn a comprehensive national plan on its roadmap to fully achieve the Sendai framework by 2030, and a short term goal by 2020. “India is the largest democracy which has braced the Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction and has drawn a national and local strategy with a shortterm goal achievement target set for 2020,” said Denis McClean of UNISDR. Source: https://goo.gl/YjVPkN
Cancun, Mexico: In a rare diplomatic move and probably being the only country here at UN’s Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, India has held five bilateral meetings with countries in the Asia Pacific region and more are scheduled to build a global coalition of countries that will closely work on disaster mitigation and share expertise and technology with each other on safeguarding critical infrastructure that includes schools, hospitals, road, power and telecommunication. This is second significant diplomatic initiative by the Narendra Modi government after forming a global alliance of 121 countries post-Paris Climate Conference of 2015. The bilateral with Mongolia, Indonesia, Australia, Japan and Malaysia have been held here in the last two days and a few others are scheduled on Friday, including the one with Mexico. Minister of state for Home Kiren Rijiju and PM Narendra Modi’s additional principal secretary P K Mishra, between them, have been meeting these country representatives, an agenda that was worked out well in advance before a high-level Indian delegation left New Delhi for Cancun to participate in the Global Platform for DRR (disaster risk reduction) organized by UNISDR. The global platform is being attended by representatives of 189 countries, including 50 ministers and seven heads of state. On Thursday, the PM’s additional principal secretary represented India at a high-level meeting of 13 countries called by UN’s deputy secretary-general Amina Mohammed where Mishra made a strong pitch for building the coalition. The agenda of the meet was finding coherence among the Sendai framework for DRR, the Paris Climate agreement and the Sustainable development goals. Mishra made a reference to the Indian PM’s 10-point agenda on safeguarding critical infrastructure and a global coalition he had proposed last year in November 2016 at the Asian ministerial conference on DRR in New Delhi. Source: goo.gl/yuEijk
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Wipro hace de Jalisco su hub principal para América Latina
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Tlaquepaque.- Con una inversión superior a los 6 millones de dólares, la firma tecnológica de origen indio Wipro arrancó las operaciones de su Centro de Excelencia en la Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara (ZMG), lo que posiciona a la entidad como su principal centro de operaciones en América Latina y a México como un mercado estratégico para su crecimiento. Este Centro de Excelencia, en el que empleará cerca de 1,000 expertos en tecnologías de la Información, forma parte de la expansión de la firma en la región, y se suma a las operaciones de Wipro tienen tiene en Nuevo León, el Estado de México y la ciudad de México. Abidali Neemuchwala, director ejecutivo de Wipro, comentó que la expansión de sus operaciones en México abre también la posibilidad de mantener sus negocios en Estados Unidos, luego de las políticas migratorias que el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump buscan limitar los visados de trabajo y desincentivar el empleo de ciudadanos extranjeros. “El Centro de Guadalajara está enfocada en proveer servicios nearshore para permitir que nuestros clientes y corporaciones con las que trabajamos, una oportunidad para continuar haciendo negocios en Estados Unidos y proveer de valor en otras partes del mundo”, comentó a pregunta de El Economista. “Creemos en el libre comercio y la movilidad del talento. Somos muy respetuosos de las necesidades de cada comunidad, de cada país para proveer empleo y oportunidades para gente talentosa”, agregó. Desde su llegada a México en el 2012 a la fecha,
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la compañía india asegura que ha invertido más 25 millones de dólares en el territorio nacional. El Economista adelantó previamente, la compañía busca crecer su tamaño para el 2020 y alcanzar una plantilla laboral de entre 3,000 y 4,000 trabajadores. En este camino, la firma planea inaugurar dentro de unos cuatro a cinco meses, un segundo centro de excelencia en Guadalajara que tendrá el doble de capacidad que el recién inaugurado, adelantó Ankur Prakash, vicepresidente de Nuevos Crecimientos y Mercados Emergentes de Wipro, durante un encuentro con medios. La compañía emplea a más de 1,300 técnicos e ingenieros en todo el país, de los cuales el 97% son locales. En México factura unos 50 millones de dólares anualmente y con los nuevos centros instalados en Jalisco, Wipro espera aumentar hasta 40% su facturación país durante el próximo año fiscal que comprende los meses de abril a marzo del 2018. En América Latina, la compañía tiene cinco centros de entrega en Brasil y Argentina y México donde cuenta con un personal de 2,500 empleados. A nivel global, Wipro tiene presencia en más de 60 países con una facturación mundial de 8,000 millones de dólares, y cuenta con una plantilla de 175,000 trabajadores. Source: https://goo.gl/rkivRG
Libros que deberías leer antes de viajar a la India Textos que ayudan a entender un país tan fascinante como complejo Isidoro Merino 1 de Mayo de 2017
Una zona de oscuridad V. S. Naipaul Debate, 2015 “Mi India no era como la de los ingleses o los británicos. Mi India estaba llena de dolor. Unos sesenta años antes mis antepasados habían hecho el larguísimo viaje desde India hasta el Caribe, de al menos seis semanas, y aunque apenas se hablaba de ello cuando yo era pequeño, a medida que fui haciéndome mayor empezó a preocuparme cada vez más. De modo que, a pesar de ser escritor, yo no iba a la India de Forster o de Kipling. Iba a una India que solamente existía en mi cabeza...”. Una zona de oscuridad es el primer libro del premio Nobel V.S. Naipaul sobre la tierra de sus antepasados, la crónica de 13 meses por la India en 1962. Primera de una trilogía que se completa con India, tras un millón de motines e India: una civilización herida, narra el intento de Naipaul de “abolir la oscuridad” que le separaba de su pasado ancestral. Hijo de inmigrantes brahmanes, vuelve al lugar de origen de su padre, en Uttar Pradesh, y sufre un choque emocional tremendo ante el fanatismo y la auto indulgencia que rodea a sus parientes en “el país más pobre del mundo”. Al final le queda un regusto de confusión, polvo y ansiedad. También la dulzura de la India, y el tener que enfrentarse a su propio vacío. Vislumbres de la India Octavio Paz Seix Barral 2012 “Jardines públicos agobiados por el calor, monos en las cornisas de los edificios, mierda y jazmines, niños vagabundos”. Octavio Paz escribía así en 1951, cuando llegó a Bombay. Desde 1962 a 1968 fue embajador de México en la India. Su profundo conocimiento del país, y su enorme cultura, quedan reflejados en este ensayo con ráfagas poéticas, que sigue la estela de uno de los textos más estimulantes del poeta y escritor: Conjunciones y disyunciones.
El olor de la india Pier Paolo Pasolini Península 2013 “He visto a un joven, inmóvil, del color de la cera, abstraído: pero en sus ojos desorbitados había un gran orden y una gran paz. Tenía las manos unidas en gesto de plegaria. Me acerqué para observar mejor (...) Miré qué era lo que adoraba. Se trataba de una rana, de un metro de altura, encerrada en el interior del templete, detrás de unos sucios tapices amarillos: una rana hecha con una madera que parecía viscosa, con el dorso pintado de rojo y la panza de amarillo”. Por un lado, la fascinación de lo desconocido, la oscura magia de Benarés, las noches de Bombay, el encanto de una tierra ajena e incomprensible; por el otro, el horror de la existencia que allí se lleva. Una delicia descriptiva, que a la vez deja trazos de la polifacética y compleja personalidad de su autor. El libro se completa con una entrevista a Alberto Moravia, que, junto con Elsa Morante, acompañó al escritor y cineasta en el viaje, realizado en 1961. Un bárbaro en Asia Henri Michaux Tusquets Editores, 1977 “Hay que ver el TajMahal en Agra. A su lado, Notre Dame de París es un bloque de materiales inmundos, buenos para echarlos al Sena, o a un pozo cualquiera, como todos los otros monumentos (salvo quizás el Partenón y algunas pagodas)”. La versatilidad creadora del escritor y pintor franco-belga se manifiesta íntegra en esta obra –una de las favoritas de Borges, en la que describe el viaje que realizó en 1932 por varios países de Asia. Michaux, que compartió con los surrealistas la imaginación visionaria y el gusto por el gesto caligráfico, encontró en el refinamiento de India, Java y China na la materia con la que alimentaría buena parte de su poesía y obra gráfica. Source: https://goo.gl/jZEPgp
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