#Cinema Halls in Chandigarh

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Cinema Halls In Chandigarh

The city of Chandigarh has been popularly known for the number of entertainments it offers to its residents. Chandigarh is incredibly well-planned and renowned for its architecture all over the world. The city's residents love to have fun, and going to the movies is a staple of family life. Cinema Halls in Chandigarh include both classic theatres and multiplexes.

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Auditoium Sound System

Auditoriums or concert halls are the halls that are used for large number of gatherings, concerts, lectures, public dealings, film festivals, presentations, seminFreijFars, plays, and live show performances. In auditorium spaces, we provide the facilities of assembly halls, exhibit halls, auditoriums, theatres, etc with auditorium sound system. When you will plan for building a new auditorium you should plan for auditorium sound that capture the audience and Sound Reinforcement System install with Auditorium sound to deliver a clear voice to the audience. Sound system for school auditorium and other Auditoriums or concert halls has included the features of hydraulic stage platforms, flying balconies, movable seating, billboard systems, etc.

Auditoriums buildings are designed to accommodate large audiences and this building installed with Auditorium Speaker and Video Projection System so that the audience can watch and listen to sound with clarity and watch pictures from the stage. As such, auditoriums are designed with Motorized Stage Curtain Systems, multiple stage lighting system and sound reinforcement system of multiple stories high in order to accommodate seating, Multipurpose Hall Stage Lighting, sightlines, and acoustical and automation requirements. A raised stage of an auditorium designing with Audio system for auditorium and special lighting equipment or Auditorium Stage Lighting Solutions is often required as well. In auditoriums buildings Cinema clubs and Auditorium Sound Systems also need sound reinforcement system for control voices in Auditorium spaces. The sound system for the auditorium includes the list of applicable auditorium sound system design objectives elements and other sound system equipment. You should apply auditorium sound in auditoriums with sound reinforcement system and acoustic material in stage areas, side walls, back walls, and balcony faces. This acoustical treatment prevents auditorium sound from reflecting back into the auditorium room by absorbing the unwanted sound's energy. If there is no auditorium sound system absorptive material on the back wall, music and sound will simply reflect back into the auditorium area. This distracts from audiences, performers, and guest experience.

All the Auditorium buildings are designed to accommodate large gatherings also designing auditorium sound system make it more attractive. Sound reinforcement system make sound clear. We offer automation and acoustics in Chandigarh with installation of auditorium sound system. If you are making poor room acoustics for auditoriums at a low cost that is caused by a lack of absorption, a poor audio system for the auditorium leaves echoes in the room that blur the original sound signals and you cannot listen to clear voice quality. So, you have to need branded Bose pro audio auditorium sound system for auditorium halls.

In Auditoriums sound system for the auditorium deliver the clarity of speech from the stage and the harmony of the music is compromised with the audience, the audience is left straining to hear. In the Auditorium design and auditorium sound system setup, and sound reinforcement system our main goal is to deliver the original sound with clarity of the Auditorium Sound System to every member of the audience regardless of their seating location.

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For whatever sort of office space, Expressions Interior & Architecture, Interior & Architecture Designers in Mohali, Chandigarh, provides a full design solution. We have worked on small- to large-scale corporate offices' interior designs. The design of IT offices, corporate offices for big businesses, and industrial buildings are all part of our project portfolio. Creating various types of office spaces, meeting and conference facilities, reception areas, workstations, server rooms, etc. are typically included in the scope of work. Our talented staff offers design options that are consistent with your company's mission and vision.

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FOMA 40: Demolished Masterpieces Of India

The status of architectural heritage in India is either demolished, dilapidated, or being fought for, by concerned citizens, architects and conservationist but the definitions remain blurry and more and more buildings are being taken off the heritage list each day to make room for new development projects.

The Hall of Nations by Raj Rewal (1972) | Photo via livinspaces

From the government initiated social housing projects, which answered the massive housing crisis in post-independence Indian cities, to the WHO Headquarters in Delhi (1962) and the Hall of Nations (1972) that was built to celebrate 25 years of India’s independence from the British Raj, are just a few examples of such great loss. 

Correa's Tube House prototype for the Gujarat Housing Board's low cost housing competition in 1960. | Photo via Charles Correa Archive

In 1960, the Gujarat Housing Board initiated an open competition to gather new ideas in the realm of low-cost/affordable housing. Inspired by the ‘windscoop’ houses of Iran or Alhambra in Spain, Indian architect Charles Correa developed a low rise, high density layout with at most attention to climate and comfort. The Tube house unit with its sloping roof and adjustable louvers used the conventional airflow to naturally ventilate the house. An open floor plan with raised levels created privacy. This unit was the only one built by the housing board as a prototype. Built at the height of the Indian socialist movement, the Tube House cemented Correa's position in housing design in the country and allowed him to try out many of the theories of low rise-high density clustered incremental housing that he developed further in Belapur housing, Mumbai and PREVI Experimental housing project, Lima. The Tube House was demolished in 1995.

Drawings of the Tube House explaining different space for different activities and users. | Photo via Charles Correa Archive

Cluster of Tube houses with ‘wind-scoops’ for ventilation and community central courtyards. | Photo via Charles Correa Archive

Based on the spatial, material and climatic methodologies developed during the Tube House, Correa went on to try them in an another of his houses, the Ramakrishna House built for a mill owner in Ahmadabad. Whether it was low-cost social housing or a house for a wealthy mill owner, Correa was able to elegantly merge local materials and traditional building techniques while maintaining a modern aesthetic. Placed at the northern end of the plot to maximize on the garden, the house is a series of load bearing walls punctuated by interior courtyards and windscooping canons. Victim to the real estate boom, the Ramakrishna House was sold to a developer and the building was demolished in 1996 to make room for a commercial building.

Ramakrishna House | Photo © Peter Serenyi, MIT Libraries

Next on the list of recently demolished is the WHO Headquarters in Delhi. Built by architect Habib Rahman, who was one of the pioneers of Modernism in India. His life long career in government and public works department has given Delhi and Calcutta some of its most iconic buildings. The WHO headquarters was a three-year long project, completed in 1962. Rahman was a senior architect with the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) at the time. The building was inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

The building remained a city landmark for Fifty seven years, before the six-storeyed structure was pulled down by the National Buildings Construction Corporation in July of 2019. The NBCC claimed that the building was old and fell under a seismic zone. The corporation will construct a new building for the WHO that will have around 17 floors.

Demolished WHO building in Delhi. | Photo via Habib Rahman Archives

Another one amongst Rahman's masterpieces being forgotten and razed are the 'Rahman Type Flats' in Netaji Nagar, Delhi (1954-56). After taking cabin in 1947, Nehru went on a massive building and infrastructure spree. Housing had to be built for the new government employees that were migrating to Delhi, and also to rehabilitate the huge number of people that had been displaced during the partition of the country. Besides housing also markets, cultural centers, cinemas and office buildings were built at that time. At this point Rahman’s Gropius and Bauhaus training came in handy. Rahman was asked to organize the International Exhibition on Low Cost Housing in 1954. The exhibition got architects and engineers from all over the country to take part in building sample prototypes and publishing detailed drawings, estimates and materials. Rahman's bright, well ventilated, simple two story and two room houses became a prototype for government staff housing. They came to be known as "Rahman Type Flats" and were repeated in thousands across the country. One such example of it was the government staff quarters in R.K.Puram, New Delhi completed in 1959. It housed government employees and their families for decades before they were finally demolished in 2018 to make way for high rises, which would trade public land to private entities. 

Habib Rahman CPWD housing 1954 | Photo via Habib Rahman Archive

Demolition of “Rahman Type Flats” photographed by Habib Rahman's son Ram Rahman on 28th June 2018. | Photo via architexturez

And lastly the one for which the world cried. From Pompidou Centre to MoMA in New York to the entire architecture community in India raised opposition to the demolition of The Hall of Nations in Delhi. In the 1970, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi called for entries to design a large exhibition complex which would exhibit airplanes and satellites to commemorate 25 years of India's Independence. Young architect Raj Rewal's entry not only got him the project but also curiosity and appreciation from the world. Rewal recalls the time when Buckminster Fuller came to the site and was stunned by Rewal's massive space frames in concrete making the fabric of the exhibition hall. Inspired by the traditional Indian Jaali (perforated screens), his space frame education in Europe and Le Corbusier's sun breakers as an extension to his building façades in Chandigarh, Rewal here let the space frames itself become the walls and the roof of the exhibition halls. Engineer Mahindra Raj explains how space frames everywhere were being done in steel at the time but India did not have the quality and the fabricators for steel sections for a project of that scale and importing steel sections from abroad to build this symbol of India's growth and progress was not an option. 45 years later in 2017, the Hall of Nations was pulled down by half a dozen bulldozers that worked overnight to demolish this masterpiece of post-independence architecture in India making way for a "new state-of-the-art convention centre and exhibition centre."

Architect Raj Rewal and structural engineer Mahindra Raj created the Hall of Nations in 1972. | Photo via livinspaces

The significance of Hall of Nations from "Indian Modernity" by Manu Rewal.

In conversation with the Quint after the demolition,  Rewal explains, "In 1972, the Hall of Nations and Industries was symbolic of an achievement by young architects in a newly-independent India, creating a style, which could be constructed with limited means, yet be uniquely Indian."

Architecture Live quoted Rewal: "[[Hall of Nations]] was a great feat of art and architecture… it was a symbol of what very ordinary people can do. 500 families worked on the site; there were no canteens, no crèches, no helmets, and the work went on for a very long time. The structure was built from hand-poured concrete, and was labour intensive; the credit does not only belong to the architects and the engineers, but also to these people – because it was their achievement, to have created something through such simple methods.” 

These statements of Rewal aren't only true in case of the Hall of Nation but for all of India's modern heritage that is slowly disappearing along with its history.

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FOMA 40: Zahara Chhapra

Zahara Chhapra is an architect and researcher from Mumbai, India. Having recently completed her Masters in Design Research from the Bauhaus in Dessau, Zahara now resides in Berlin and is a researcher and editor with Architectuul. Her interests lie in the spatial and political agency of architectural and urban actors in the everyday life of the city.

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08:28 (IST) Coronavirus in Goa Latest Update Seven Mumbai-Goa train passengers tested positive Three more passengers - a total of seven people - who travelled in Mumbai-Goa train on Sunday tested positive for COVID-19 during TrueNat testing. The total number of active cases in Goa has reached 29. 08:13 (IST) Coronavirus in Madhya Pradesh Latest Update 95 new cases in Madhya Pradesh's Indore Indore reported 95 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, taking the total number of positive cases in the district to 2,565. 08:12 (IST) Coronavirus Outbreak Latest Update Dont' criticise, hold talks with Opposition: Ashok Gehlot to Centre Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot responded to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's statement urging the Congress to work with the Centre and in a humane manner towards solving the migrant issue. "Instead of criticising Rahul Gandhi, Centre should have held talks with opposition on what help they need for arranging facilities for migrant workers. It'll take six to eight months for them to reach home if migrants travel by train. We should arrange vehicles for them," Gehlot said. 07:56 (IST) Coronavirus in Maharashtra Latest Update 9 deaths, 223 new cases in Pune district Nine new deaths and 223 confirmed coronavirus cases were reported in Pune district over 24 hours, as of Sunday night. The total positive cases in the district are 4,018, including 206 deaths and 2,014 cured patients. 07:44 (IST) Coronavirus Outbreak Latest Update Lockdown 4.0 begins today: Activities that are allowed Hospitality services meant for housing health/police/government officials/healthcare workers/stranded persons shall be operational. Canteens at the bus depots, railway stations and airports will also be operational. Restaurants will be permitted to operate kitchens for home delivery of food items. Sports complexes and stadia will be permitted to open; however, spectators will not be allowed. Online distance learning shall continue to be permitted and shall be encouraged. Inter-state movement of passenger vehicles and buses, with mutual consent of State(s) and UT(s) involved, except in containment zones. All States/UTs shall allow inter-state and intra-state movement of medical professionals, nurses and para-medical staff, sanitation personnel and ambulances. All States/UTs shall allow inter-state movement of all types of goods/cargos, including empty trucks. All shop owners must also ensure that customers maintain 'do gaz doori' (minimum six feet distance) and that not more than five people are allowed inside at any given time. Persons below 10 years and above 65 years of age, those with co-morbidities, and pregnant women shall stay at home except for essential and health purposes. 07:39 (IST) Coronavirus Outbreak Latest Update Lockdown 4.0 begins today: Prohibited activities All domestic and international air travel of passengers. The movement of individuals will remain strictly prohibited between 7 pm and 7 am, except for essential activities. All metro rail services will remain suspended. School, colleges, educational/training/coaching institutions etc, will continue to remain shut. Hotels, restaurants and other hospitality services shall remain suspended. All cinema halls, shopping malls, gymnasiums, swimming pools, entertainment parks, theatres, bars and auditoriums, assembly halls will remain closed. All social/political/sports/entertainment/academic/cultural/religious functions/other gatherings and large congregations will not be allowed. All religious places/places of worship shall be closed for public, and religious congregations are strictly prohibited. 07:36 (IST) Coronavirus in Goa Latest Update 4 test positive in Goa, taking state's total to 26 Declared a green zone last week after it reported no new coronavirus cases and all patients were discharged, Goa now is witnessing a resurgence of infections. The state reported 19 new infections, taking the state's total to 26. The new cases including four persons who had travelled in the Mumbai-Goa train on Sunday and TrueNat tests had given a positive result for them. The samples have been sent for confirmatory tests and 100 passengers who had travelled in the train were tested. On the same day, another train passenger had tested positive for coronavirus. At the time that Goa was declared a green zone, seven patients undergoing treatment were discharged. Ever since then, 19 new cases have been reported. 07:33 (IST) Coronavirus Outbreak Latest Update Confirmed cases climb to 90,927 According to figures released by the health ministry, the number of coronavirus cases in India stood at 90,927, including 2,872 deaths as of Monday morning. India had seen the highest spike in cases between Saturday and Sunday over 24 hours, even as the nationwide lockdown was extended till 31 May. Coronavirus Outbreak LATEST Updates: Three more passengers - a total of seven people - who travelled in Mumbai-Goa train on Sunday tested positive for COVID-19 during TrueNat testing. The total number of active cases in Goa has reached 29. The country is set to enter the fourth phase of the lockdown due to the novel coronavirus on Monday, as the National Disaster Management Authority issued an order to continue the lockdown measures till 31 May. Subsequently, the home ministry issued a set of guidelines for the fourth phase, in which it directed that air travel, hotels, restaurants and public gatherings will remain prohibited throughout the country. Earlier in the day, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the fifth and final tranche of the government's stimulus package to revive the coronavirus-hit economy. She said the stimulus package includes the Rs 8.01 lakh crore of liquidity being made available by the RBI. The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,872 and the number of total positive cases climbed to 90,927 Sunday morning, registering an increase of 120 fatalities and a record jump of 4,987 new cases in 24 hours, since 8 AM Saturday, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 53,946, while 34,108 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, it said. Lockdown guidelines The Union home ministry issued guidelines listing the dos and don''ts during the lockdown 4.0 that has been clamped in the country to cut the chain of coronavirus infection. The guidelines said all domestic, international air travel of passengers, except domestic air ambulance, will remain prohibited. Metro rail services, schools, colleges will remain closed till May end, the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said. Hotels, restaurants, cinema halls, malls, swimming pools, gyms will also remain shut even as all social, political, religious functions, and places of worship will be closed till May 31, it said. The MHA said inter-state movement of passenger vehicles, buses will be allowed with mutual consent of states involved during the COVID-19 lockdown 4.0. States and Union Territories have been given the powers for delineation of Red, Green and Orange Zones as per COVID-19 situation, the MHA said. All shops, except those in containment zones and malls, will be allowed to open from Monday with staggered timings during lockdown 4.0, it said. Further, state governments and Union Territories have been asked to decide on the demarcation of red, orange and green zones based on the parameters set by the Centre. Also significantly, the new guidelines permit inter-state movement of passenger vehicles and buses with the mutual consent of the states or Union Territories. State-wise cases and deaths Of the 120 new deaths reported since Saturday morning, 67 were in Maharashtra, 19 in Gujarat, nine in Uttar Pradesh, seven in West Bengal, six in Delhi, four in Madhya Pradesh, three in Tamil Nadu and two in Haryana and one each from Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan Of the total 2,872 fatalities, Maharashtra tops the tally with 1,135 fatalities, Gujarat comes second with 625 deaths, followed by Madhya Pradesh at 243, West Bengal at 232, Delhi at 129, Rajasthan at 126, Uttar Pradesh at 104,Tamil Nadu at 74 and Andhra Pradesh at 49 The death toll reached 36 in Karnataka, 34 Telangana and 32 in Punjab Haryana has reported 13 fatalities due to the disease, Jammu and Kashmir has 12 deaths while Bihar has registered seven and Kerala has reported four deaths Jharkhand, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh and Odisha have recorded three COVID-19 fatalities each, while Assam has reported two deaths Meghalaya, Uttarakhand and Puducherry have reported one fatality each, according to the ministry data. The ministry's website says more than 70 per cent of the deaths are due to comorbidities According to the health ministry data updated in the morning, the highest number of confirmed cases in the country are from Maharashtra at 30,706, followed by Gujarat at 10,988, Tamil Nadu at 10,585, Delhi at 9,333, Rajasthan at 4,960, Madhya Pradesh at 4,789 and Uttar Pradesh at 4,258 The number of COVID-19 cases has gone up to 2,576 in West Bengal, 2,355 in Andhra Pradesh and 1,946 in Punjab It has risen to 1,509 in Telangana, 1,179 in Bihar, 1,121 in Jammu and Kashmir, 1,092 in Karnataka and 887 in Haryana Odisha has reported 737 coronavirus infection cases so far, while Kerala has 587 cases. A total of 217 people have been infected with the virus in Jharkhand and 191 in Chandigarh Tripura has reported 167 cases, Assam has 92 cases, Uttarakhand has 88, Himachal Pradesh has 78 cases, Chhattisgarh has 67 and Ladakh has registered 43 cases, so far Thirty-three COVID-19 cases have been reported from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Goa have reported 17 COVID-19 cases, while Meghalaya and Puducherry have registered 13 cases each Manipur has seven cases. Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Dadar and Nagar Haveli have reported a case each till now. Sitharaman announces final tranche of economic stimulus The Centre has announced suspension of new bankruptcy filings on loan defaults for one year and raised the threshold for insolvency as it moved to ease COVID-19 pain for the industry. It also announced a new policy for companies under state control saying public sector undertakings under the non-strategic sector will be privatised while those in the identified strategic sector would be capped by not more than four by merging some of them. In the fifth and final tranche of the economic stimulus package, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman raised allocation for employment guarantee scheme by Rs 40,000 crore over and above the Rs 61,000 crore budgeted earlier for MGNREGS, to provide employment to migrant workers moving back to their states. This, she said, will help generate nearly 300 crore person-days in total. For industries, she said the minimum threshold to initiate insolvency proceedings will be raised to Rs 1 crore from Rs 1 lakh, which largely insulates micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from bankruptcy on defaulting on loans. Also, a special insolvency resolution framework for MSMEs under Section 240A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) will be notified soon, she said adding that fresh initiation of insolvency proceedings will be suspended up to one year depending upon the pandemic situation. Coronavirus-related debt will be excluded from the definition of "default" under the IBC for the purpose of triggering insolvency proceedings, she said adding that the changes will be effected by promulgating an ordinance. Additionally, minor technical and procedural defaults under the Companies Act such as shortcomings in CSR reporting, inadequacies in board report, filing defaults, and delay in holding AGM will be decriminalised. Last week, the government pledged a Rs 20 lakh crore (nearly 10 per cent of gross domestic product) package to support the economy headed for its first full-year contraction in more than four decades. With inputs from PTI

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Wearing Face Masks in Schools, Offices, Malls Made Mandatory in Chandigarh

Wearing Face Masks in Schools, Offices, Malls Made Mandatory in Chandigarh

The Chandigarh administration on Monday made wearing of face masks compulsory in “closed environments” like schools, offices and cinema halls to fight the Covid pandemic. A fine of Rs 500 will be imposed for not wearing masks, according to an order issued by the adviser to the union territory administrator. Wearing of masks has been made mandatory in “closed environments” like cinema halls,…

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Haryana Extends COVID-19 Curbs Till February 10: Details Here

Haryana Extends COVID-19 Curbs Till February 10: Details Here

Cinema halls, theatres and multiplexes shall remain closed during curbs. Chandigarh: The Haryana government on Wednesday extended Covid-related restrictions in the state till February 10, but allowed malls and markets to remain open till 7 pm, extending the relaxation by one hour. Initially, various restrictions imposed by the January 5 order in some districts, which had witnessed a big spike in…

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Haryana COVID curbs: Cinema halls closed in Gurugram, Faridabad and 3 other districts, check SOPs here

Haryana COVID curbs: Cinema halls closed in Gurugram, Faridabad and 3 other districts, check SOPs here

Chandigarh: Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases in Haryana, authorities on Saturday ordered the closure of cinema halls, multiplexes and sports complexes in five districts, including Gurugram and Faridabad, from January 2 to 12, according to an official order. The other three districts where the restrictions will be applicable are Ambala, Panchkula and Sonipat. This comes on a day when a night curfew…

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Chandigarh to Reopen Schools for Classes 9-12 from July 19

Chandigarh to Reopen Schools for Classes 9-12 from July 19

The Chandigarh administration on Tuesday said schools can reopen for classes 9 to 12 from July 19 and cinema halls and spas can operate with 50 per cent occupancy. Coaching institutes will also be allowed to function physically from July 19 on the condition that all eligible students and the staff have been administered at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, it said. “The schools will start…

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Schools in Chandigarh will start functioning physically from July 19 for Class 9 to Class 12 subject to parents’ consent. Online mode of teaching will continue: Chandigarh Administration Chandigarh Administration allows reopening of coaching institutes from July 19 with condition that all the eligible students & staff are administered at least one dose of vaccine The administration also allows cinema halls & spas to function with 50% capacity https://www.instagram.com/p/CRRBeVIsS_B/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Craze for Western Dreams….Phir bhi Dil Hai Hindustani!!!

Indians in general; particularly Gujaratis & Punjabis, have been very keen to migrate to foreign lands. From time immemorial, Indians had migrated to foreign lands. For example, Gujaratis had gone to East Africa & UK from say 18th century and Punjabis (majority Sikh) to UK and USA for last 100 years. I recall that even Mahatma (M K) Gandhi, a Gujarati, went to Durban, South Africa after becoming a barrister from UK. I am going to pen down my own experience with immigrants in last fifty years.

I went to France and UK in 1979 as a member of a team from Engineers India Ltd. We were staying at the University town of Aux en Province, near Marseilles. As we were mostly vegetarians, we went in search of it on foot near the hotel. We chanced upon a van serving Pizza and were pleased to get vegetarian pizza. I came to know that the couple operating the pizza van were Gujarati of Indian descent from Madagascar, a French colony. They had come only a couple months ago, and this was the best means to earn livelihood they had hit upon.

During the same trip, we were departing from Heathrow, London for India. I was a bit taken aback when I saw two ladies of Indian descent working as cleaners. One was a Gujarati lady of more than 50 yrs of age, who had apparently come to UK from Uganda after Idi Amin threw them out. The other was a newlywed Punjabi girl in her wedding attire- fully decked in red salwar kameez and jewelry in her hands and neck. She was angry with her husband, who came to meet her, as she was obviously cheated about the “luxury” of the foreign land.

In 1980s I heard an interesting story. A rich businessman of Ahmedabad had a craze to migrate to USA. He owned a bungalow in a posh locality of Ahmedabad and a single screen cinema hall. He managed to go to USA on tourist visa. Once in USA, he vanished in thin air only to re-appear with a valid document to live in USA. He started a business of laundry service to earn a living. I think it was a big price paid to be in USA.

In 1990’s I lived in Japan and used to meet, by accident, Pakistani youngsters at supermarkets and Indian restaurants. I came to know from them that Japan was granting 90 days tourist visa on arrival to Pakistani passport holders. The racket was very well organized. The agent in Pakistan would send these youngsters and the Japanese agent would receive them at Narita, Tokyo airport. They would directly be taken to rural area to work in machine shops as machine operators. They would earn a lot by working 12 hours a day and stayed if they did not get caught. The earnings got remitted to Pakistan through Hawala. Some smart boys managed to marry Japanese girls and stayed on.

In 2007-08, I was working for Praj Industries Ltd., Pune and we were executing a project of fuel ethanol at Lake Charles in Louisiana, USA. A team, headed by me, went there for a site kick off meeting and the client booked us at a nearby Howard Johnson motel. While checking in, I noticed the name of General Manager as Harry Patel. I desired to meet him, and I did. He was a very warm host and invited all of us for a Gujarati home cooked food and beer. I gathered that his real name was Hira Bhai Patel, and he came from Navasari.  He had worked as a diamond courier in Mumbai before leaving India with his wife and a daughter to Canada around 1995 (12 years before we met). He sneaked into USA with family and now was settled in Louisiana. He had another daughter by now. He also was planning to set up two more motels in the neighborhood. I asked him about IRS and his not having the required documents. He told me that he was good friends with the governor. His only problem was that he could not leave USA and go to India. Otherwise, his family and he were enjoying, all the facilities and livelihood of being in the USA.

Around the same time in 2008, we had gone to Toronto to see Niagara Falls and stayed one night with our friends, a Sikh family from Pune. I chanced to meet a youngster in his late twenties at their residence. He had migrated to Canada from Chandigarh a couple of years ago. He was on his way next morning to Calgary to finalize a transport contract. His story was interesting. A couple of years before we met, he was a branch in charge for a Pizza Hut outlet in Chandigarh. Like many Punjabis, he also applied for migrating to Canada and he succeeded. On arrival, he did not know what to do to earn his living.  On advice of some Indian, he started driving a truck after obtaining a license. In a year or so he got the hang of transport business. He started his own company and was operating more than 3 trucks with Punjabi drivers, who he brought from Punjab. He had chosen the most difficult track in the middle of Canada and near the shell oil business. He was doing very well.

Above stories may not represent the Indian diaspora abroad but they are interesting. Immigrant Indian population is app 17 million. In my opinion: The blue collared workers  (masons, carpenters, plumbers, drivers) from India migrate because (1) the working and living conditions are very poor and unsafe, (2) the earnings are meager and not commensurate with hard work and (3) no respect for work in society. On the other hand white collar workers ( engineers, doctors, chartered accountants, para medics, I T experts) decide to migrate because (1) over worked and the living conditions are not reliable and safe, (2) civic amenities (water, electricity, roads, sewage) are not up to the mark (3) difficult to pursue hobbies or (4) change profession ( IT expert can become an estate agent or a chemical engineer becomes a doctor) from the academics. In all most migrants have done exceedingly well in the chosen field. But Indians abroad miss, if not all but most, the social life, festivities, the crowds and not the least, Indian food.

In conclusion, I can say that Indians were attracted to the foreign lands in the past and they continue their efforts to migrate in present day. In future also, the urge to migrate will not subside.

Please Note: Some of the readers may find this topic a bit out of context due to prevailing restrictions on international travel and visa. I am sure normalcy will return sooner than later.