#Indian Marketing Firm

[dreamwebindia19]

Best Digital Marketing Agency India

Dream Web India helps businesses promote their reputation and improvement the reputation on the web. As focused on social media marketing Delhi NCR and digital marketing company in India, we do not disappoint you on creative and reliable services that one expects. We use good ideas, storytelling, quality content, technology and best practices, and we help you integrate marketing with your business objectives to deliver the best results. Learn more - https://medium.com/@dreamwebindia19/promote-business-and-improve-its-online-visibility-via-dream-web-india-b887319b68eb

[curiousquill1]

The Hidden Complexities of Managing Substantial Wealth in India

[A comprehensive guide to understanding how wealth management services help high-net-worth individuals in India]

Understanding Why Professional Wealth Management Services Matter

Managing significant wealth in India poses challenges that are more complex than standard financial planning. Leading wealth management firms offer specialized expertise to navigate complex tax regulations, family business succession, and investment strategies. High-net-worth individuals increasingly turn to professional wealth management services to handle these distinct hurdles.

The Growing Need for Expert Wealth Management Services

Take, for instance, a third-generation successful business owner in Mumbai who partnered with a wealth management company to diversify from the traditional family business into multiple ventures. Here, net worth has gone up manifold, but complexities have also increased - from compliance with multiple states' regulations to overseas investment opportunities and succession planning within a joint family structure.

How Wealth Management Firms Shape the Indian Financial Landscape

High net worth individuals in India face unique challenges that top wealth management firms help address:

Family Business Dynamics

Most Indian wealthy families rely on wealth management services to balance their family-owned businesses with personal wealth management needs.

Real Estate Holdings

Property traditionally constitutes a large part of Indian portfolios, where wealth management companies provide expertise in commercial and residential real estate management.

Gold and Alternative Investments

The cultural affinity for gold and emerging alternative investment options require specialized wealth management services to optimize returns while respecting traditional preferences.

Strategic Benefits of Professional Wealth Management Companies

Wealth management firms in India provide crucial services that transcend traditional financial planning. A full-fledged wealth management service includes:

NRI Investment Management

Leading wealth management companies excel in managing investments and compliance across borders for families with members abroad.

Tax Optimization

Professional wealth management services help navigate India's constantly changing tax scenario while maintaining compliance across jurisdictions.

Succession Planning

Experienced wealth management firms design wealth transfer strategies aligned with Indian inheritance laws and family dynamics.

Local Expertise of Indian Wealth Management Companies

The best wealth management services in India combine global best practices with deep knowledge of local markets. They offer specialized solutions for:

Traditional Business Families: Modernizing investment approaches while respecting values

First-Generation Entrepreneurs: Managing sudden wealth creation

Professional CXOs: Handling complex compensation structures

Risk Management Through Professional Wealth Management Services

Indian wealth management firms address special risk factors:

Political and Regulatory Risk

Wealth management companies protect assets from policy changes and regulatory shifts.

Currency Risk

Expert wealth management services manage exposure to rupee fluctuations.

Family Disputes

Professional wealth management firms structure wealth to prevent family disagreements.

Digital Innovation in Wealth Management Services

The contemporary wealth management company leverages technology while maintaining personal relationships:

Digital Portfolio Access: Real-time information access

Research and Insights: Market analysis through digital platforms

Virtual Consultation: Easy access to wealth advisors

Cultural Awareness in Professional Wealth Management

Indian wealth management services understand cultural nuances:

Philanthropic Planning

Wealth management firms design charitable giving aligned with Indian customs.

Marriage Planning

Professional wealth management companies balance traditional needs with modern investment strategies.

Religious Considerations

Expert wealth management services respect religious preferences in wealth distribution.

Choosing the Right Wealth Management Partner

For high-net-worth individuals in India, selecting a wealth management company means choosing a partner who understands both global practices and Indian dynamics. The ideal wealth management services bring together:

Local Market Knowledge: Understanding of Indian regulations

Global Expertise: International investment opportunities

Cultural Understanding: Appreciation of Indian values

Professional wealth management firms are essential for long-term success in India's complex financial landscape. By partnering with experienced wealth management companies, Indian high-net-worth individuals can preserve and grow their wealth while navigating unique challenges.

[avosiavetcare]

Top 10 Veterinary Companies in India: Leaders in Animal Healthcare

India’s veterinary industry is experiencing significant growth, driven by the increasing need for quality animal healthcare products and services. This growth is fueled by companies that are at the forefront of innovation, quality, and customer satisfaction. Here’s a look at the top 10 veterinary companies in India that are making a mark in the animal healthcare sector.

Here is the list of the top 10 veterinary companies in India:

1. Avosia Vetcare

https://avosiavetcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/VETCARE.png

Key Products:

Vaccines

Antibiotics

Parasiticides

Why Avosia Vetcare:

Global expertise and extensive research

Comprehensive product range

Commitment to innovation

[lares-algotech]

Understand The Role of Algo Trading in the Indian Stock Market

In recent years, the Indian stock market has witnessed a remarkable transformation, thanks to the rise of algo trading in the Indian stock market.

Learn more: https://laresalgotech.com/what-is-algo-trading-in-the-indian-stock-market/

[metamatar]

Employers desire foreign workers who are accustomed to the hazardous work sites of industrial construction; in particular, they specifically solicit migrants who do not have a history of labor organizing within SWANA. In response, labor brokerage firms brand themselves as offering migrant workers who are deferential. Often, labor brokers conflate the category of South Asian with docility; [...] as inherently passive, disciplined, and, most important, unfettered by volatile working conditions. "We say quality, they [U.S. employers] say seasoned. We both know what it means. Workers who are not going to quit, not going to run away in the foreign country and do as they are told.” [...]

For migrants, the U.S. oil industry presents a rare chance to apply their existing skill set in a country with options for permanent residency and sponsorship of family members. Migrants wish to find an end to their tem­porary worker status; they imagine the United States as a liberal economy in which labor standards are enforced and there are opportunities for citizenship and building a life for their family. [...] What brokers fail to explain is that South Asian migrants are being recruited as guest workers. Migrants will not have access to U.S. citizenship or visas for family members; in fact, their employment status will be quite similar to their SWANA migration.

While nations such as the Philippines have both state-mandated and independent migrant rights agencies, the Indian government has minimal avenues for worker protection. These are limited to hotlines for reporting abusive foreign employers and Indian consulates located in a few select countries of the SWANA region. [... Brokers] emphasize the docility of Indian migrants in comparison to the disruptive tendencies of other Asian migrant workers. [...] “Some of these Filipino men you see make a lot of trouble in the Arab countries. Even their women, who work as maids and such, lash out. The employer says one wrong thing and the workers get the whole country [the Philippines] on the street. [...] But you don’t see our people creating a tamasha [spectacle] overseas.” [...] Just as Filipinx migrants are racialized to be undisciplined labor, Indian brokers construct divisions within the South Asian workforce to promote the primacy of their own firms. In particular, Pakistani workers are racialized as an abrasive population.

[...] While the public image of the South Asian American community remains as model minorities, presumed to be primarily upwardly mobile professionals, the global reality of the population is quite to the contrary. [...] From the historic colonial routes initiated by British occupation of South Asia to the emergence of energy markets within the countries of SWANA, migrants have been recruited to build industries by contributing their labor to construction projects. Within the last decade, these South Asian migrants, with experience in the SWANA oil industry, have been actively solicited as guest workers into the energy sector of the United States. The growth of hydraulic fracturing has opened new territory for oil extraction; capitalizing on the potential market are numerous stakeholders who have invested in industrial construction projects across the southwestern United States. The solicitation of South Asian construction workers is not coincidental. [...] Kartik, a globally competitive firm’s broker, explains the connection of Indian labor to practices of the past. “You know we come from a long history of working in foreign lands. Even the British used to send us to Africa and the Arab regions to work in the mines and oil fields. It’s part of our history.”

Seasoning Labor: Contemporary South Asian Migrations and the Racialization of Immigrant Workers, Saunjuhi Verma in the Journal of Asian American Studies

[bibleofficial]

literally it’s 200g of SOLID sterling silver & it was 200£ but KP talked him down to 180 & now i’m ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) I LOVE A DEAL

saw this GORG cigarette case & IMMEDIATELY sent it to my indian KING KP & now he’s HAULING ASS to come buy it

[fatehbaz]

In the district of Garhwal in the Indian Himalayas, at 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) above sea level, forests of sycamore, chestnut, and rhododendron gradually give way to gently sloping grasslands.

Known locally as bugyals (from the Garhwali word bug for soft grasses), these meadows were the favored grazing grounds of communities of trans-Himalayan traders [...]. High-altitude meadows are home to musk deer, moonal pheasants, and a variety of flowers, grasses (such as the scented jambu), medicinal herbs, and roots (jadi butiyan). Garhwali villagers had long used the jadi butiyan of bugyals for household consumption and trade. Customary restrictions [...] made this usage sustainable.

The advent of [...] [colonial and institutional] forestry in the princely state of Tehri-Garhwal (the Tehri Durbar), together with the growth of an urban elite Hindu market for Ayurvedic potions, arguably transformed the social lives of Himalayan herbs. [...]

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Works by upper-caste elites, such as the Maharaja of Gondal’s Aryan Medical Science (1895), claimed an exclusively “Hindu” provenance for the medicinal practices of Ayurveda. The nationalist reinvention of modern Ayurveda generated a market for medicinal herbs dominated by over a dozen firms by 1910. This emergent urban [...] bourgeois market for herbal medicines provides the context for the Tehri Durbar’s arguably unique project to commodify Himalayan herbs. Whereas the British government was reluctant to expand the plantation and manufacture of indigenous drugs, the Durbar established a separate department for the purpose, called the Vanaspati Karyalaya, that worked closely with the Forest Department.

Subordinated to the British government, the Tehri Durbar had begun contracting out vast swathes of pine and deodar forests to timber traders from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. In 1879 the Durbar’s Forest Department [...] restricted peasant access to common resources. Restrictions on the sale and collection of forest produce were put in place between 1878 and 1885, [...] precipitating numerous forest dhandaks (uprisings) as a consequence. Rules governing forest access changed in response to such protests and by 1930 prohibitions on the collection of and trade in medicinal herbs were lifted in certain areas.

The foundation of the Vanaspati Karyalaya prompted the systematization of the Forest Department’s initial efforts to monetize the collection of herbs through taxes, contracts, and tenders. By 1927 the department was working with the Karyalaya to carry out the sale of medicinal herbs, such as Gugal, Mashi, Atis, and Kawri, yielding an income of 18,294 rupees. [...] From the Durbar’s Annual Reports, [...] the Karyalaya’s preparation of Ayurvedic medicines seemed to have commanded “ready sale” primarily in the domestic market. Subsequently, therefore, the Forest Department focused on the overall sale and plantation of herbs while the Karyalaya specialized in the processing of herbs.

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Anticipating an extension of markets “as demand for Himalayan medicines grows,” the Durbar charted a project of mass plantation to overcome the “expense and difficulty of searching for herbs of indigenous growth” that were “scattered among other herb plants and weeds.”

The bugyals of Garhwal were thus classified as “wastelands” from which “practically no income at present can be derived.”

This justified plans for the cultivation of aconites such as kut and atis on a projected area of 2,000 square miles (517,997 hectares) of alpine grassland. In the 1930s, the Durbar initiated the plantation of kut in the Ganga Bhillangana Forest Division, employing trained gardeners as well as “coolie” labor to transplant herbs from nurseries to enclosed meadows. Thus, bugyals hitherto controlled by villagers [...] were gradually being enclosed for herb plantations. The Karyalaya also opened a pharmaceutical works just outside the town of Rishikesh at Muni ki Reti [...]. Graduates of [...] colleges in Delhi and Calcutta [...] were hired for these operations. [...] [T]he Tehri Durbar’s move towards the mass plantation and processing of herbs risked dispossessi[on] [...] as well as eliding local knowledges related to jadi butiyan. 

The story of the Vanaspati Karyalaya arguably suggests how complex cultural associations between the Himalayas and healing were becoming commodified.

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Image, caption, and all text above by: Nivedita Nath. "Histories of Central Himalayan Herbs: Vanaspati Karyalaya in Tehri Princely State c. 1879-1950". Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Spring 2020), no. 13. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi dot org/10.52982/rcc/9018 [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[world-of-wales]

I was looking into where COP is going it be hosted because it can tie in to earthshot, and of course Brazil is next year. COP31 (2026) is likely to be in Australia which is also a strong contender for earthshot, India is bidding for COP33 in 2028….

My reasoning on a potential Indian Earthshot is below this.

India better stay away from cop33 & Earthshot, especially after their latest 'achievements' in the conservation sector. The govt is fantastic in making bold claims but in reality, can't do shit. And I for one don't want william anywhere near that dumpster fire of hypocrites.

There's so many examples of their sheer incompetence, there's a polluted river in india - yamuna. Between 2017 - 2021 (or 22) I believe more than ₹6,800 crores of taxpayer money was spent on cleaning that death trap and it still is as dirty as it was when all this first began. There's actual toxic foam of ammonia and phosphates that floats around it 24/7.

Then just this week news came out that 25 Tigers, (which are an endangered species btw and also part of a very ambitious conservation project 'Project Tiger' started in 1973) have been untraceable from a state run national park for the past year. The only reason this came out was because another tiger was found dead from that forest.

And just yesterday, it came out that 10 elephants died in another state run park last month because they were fed...fungal infected millets.

Heck, Delhi? The capital? It's consistently been one of the most polluted cities of the world for years. It's a literal gas chamber, which gets the worst around the current time coz of various issues. Now diwali falls around this time and because of the air quality, the Indian supreme court banned any sort of crackers/fireworks to be burnt in the area? Sounds amazing right? But guess what since crackers have come to be associated with Diwali which is a hindu festival. So the members of the ruling party within their agenda have turned this ban into an attack on religion and consistently provoke their supporters on this ground urging them to burn crackers and make delhi insufferable for all.

This is just 4 examples, there's so many that if I start listing them, we'll be here for a long time.

Moreover, the current ruling party will only twist the visit to fill into their own agenda of hate mongering & political capital as they have been known to do with every such visit.

Also the govt quite literally cordoned off low income neighborhoods that fell on route of the attendees in Delhi with plastic barriers and police personnel during the G20 in 2023, to make sure no world leader saw anything other than the rosy picture they were putting out.

Now imagine what would happen in case of something like COP33. Ofc they would do similar repulsive things then also and imagine how harmful being attached to something like this with a potential Earthshot will be for William and his public image!

I would love for him to come here, Earthshot is such a fabulous initiative, and there's such a booming environmental startup sector in India like Phool (I personally am aware of their situation. My mum's cousin runs a marketing firm and she's the one who handles everything for them, and she's told me so much about how Earthshot has helped them since 2022 with linking them to investors, other similar businesses, exposure etc) or Kheyti etc etc which deserve to be highlighted.

But in the past 10 years buisness and government have become so intrinsically linked in india that no matter what the ruling party will hijack the contributions of these organizations like they do.

So yeah maybe I'm being a narrow minded idiot but Earthshot in India rn? Will only lead to credibility issues.

Now let's hope I don't go to jail for putting all this here by exercising my fundamental right under Article 19(1)(a).

[dreamwebindia19]

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[mariacallous]

Back in the 1980s, when polenta was the hot new item on restaurant menus, I was eager to try it. I knew it was a traditional Italian dish, but it was foreign to everyone else, including me. I bought a package of cornmeal, began the preparation, and when it was done I realized I had been eating it all my life. It was the same dish Jonathan Harker ate before his encounter with Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s novel, known in the American South as “cornmeal mush” and “pap” in South Africa. But I knew it as mamaliga, which had been a staple in my grandma’s Romanian kitchen. 

Because mamaliga was such an essential in our lives, I didn’t realize that most of my Jewish friends had never heard of it. The hallways in the buildings we lived in all had the same familiar scents of Ashkenazi staples we all knew — chicken soup, challah, braising briskets, and roasting chickens. Shared values and menus.

Except when it came to mamaliga, which I learned was limited to those of us whose ancestors were from Romania. 

While our family was dining on cornmeal mush, everyone else was eating kasha varnishkes, a dish I ate regularly only after tasting it at my future mother-in-law’s house (it was love at first bite).

It all has to do with geography, I think. Polenta/mamaliga is based on cornmeal, which had been unknown anywhere except the Americas, where corn is indigenous. Christopher Columbus and other Spanish and Portuguese explorers brought corn to western Europe and Africa, where it flourished. Cornmeal became a staple.

Turkish traders noticed corn grain in the markets of Africa and brought some “granoturco” back to Southeast Europe, including the region we now know as Romania, which then belonged to the Ottoman Empire. In 1692, a Romanian nobleman tried some, thought it worthy, and introduced it to Romania. It became the country’s national dish. 

A few years ago I visited “the old country,” including the city of Iasi, where my grandparents were born, and laid stones on the graves of my great-grandparents who are buried in the one remaining Jewish cemetery (when my grandparents lived there, the city was about one-third Jewish). 

Naturally we sampled mamaliga, which is ever-present on every restaurant menu. It’s usually served as a side dish, much like any starch, but in my childhood, my grandma, and later on my mother, served mamaliga in a multitude of ways, including our favorite, mamaliga cu branza si smetana – mamaliga with cheese and sour cream, served for lunch or as a side dish at dairy dinners. 

In my own kitchen, I’ve learned that mamaliga is incredibly versatile. I’ve used it as a substitute for potatoes, noodles, and rice (complete with butter, sauce, or gravy). I’ve served it as a full meal, as a topping for brisket or chicken pot pie filling, with mushroom ragout, and with caramelized onions and cheese. I’ve even mixed it with molasses and cream to make a quick Indian pudding. 

The leftovers are spectacular, too. In fact, in Romanian households they make extra mamaliga to pour into a loaf pan, let it firm up, and then cut slices to fry to crispy goodness. I’ve served fried slices of “Romanian toast” for breakfast, topped them with gravy or cheese for lunch, or with a fried egg for dinner.

It’s no wonder that the Romanians called dried ground corn mamaliga, a word that translates to “food of gold.” It’s a tribute not merely to the grain’s beautiful yellow color, but to its adaptability. Whatever you call it, this dish is an enduring winner and, as far as I am concerned, another treasure of the Ashkenazi kitchen.

[poojalate]

Digital Marketing Services: What You Should Expect from the Best Agencies

In today’s competitive online environment, the role of a digital marketing agency is crucial for business growth, brand visibility, and customer engagement. Partnering with an agency that provides the best digital marketing services can help you effectively reach your goals, boost ROI, and solidify your online presence. Here’s a breakdown of what you should expect from a top-notch digital marketing agency to ensure you’re getting the best value and results.

1. Comprehensive Digital Marketing Strategy

Holistic Approach to Marketing: A reputable digital marketing agency doesn’t just focus on one area; they offer a comprehensive digital marketing approach that covers all relevant channels and tactics, including SEO, content marketing, social media, PPC, and email marketing.

Customized Strategy Development: Expect the best agencies to craft a strategy tailored to your business’s specific goals, audience, and budget. This includes analyzing competitors, identifying growth opportunities, and creating a step-by-step plan that aligns with your long-term objectives.

2. SEO Services for Sustainable Growth

On-Page and Off-Page Optimization: SEO is a cornerstone of online visibility. A quality digital marketing agency will optimize your website’s content, structure, and links to improve its search engine ranking and attract organic traffic.

Local and Technical SEO: Beyond basic keyword optimization, the best digital marketing services include local SEO for location-based businesses and technical SEO to enhance site performance, mobile responsiveness, and indexing, ensuring your site is fully optimized for search engines.

3. ROI-Driven Paid Advertising (PPC)

Strategic PPC Campaigns: Expect data-driven, ROI-focused PPC campaigns on platforms like Google Ads, Facebook, and LinkedIn, designed to drive immediate traffic and conversions. Agencies with expertise in pay-per-click advertising can effectively target your audience and maximize ad spend.

Continuous Optimization: PPC requires careful monitoring to maintain performance. The best digital marketing agencies will continuously analyze and optimize campaigns based on click-through rates, conversion rates, and other performance metrics to achieve the highest possible return on investment.

4. Engaging Social Media Marketing

Platform-Specific Strategies: Social media marketing involves more than just posting regularly. The top agencies understand the nuances of each platform—whether it’s Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, or TikTok—and create customized strategies that resonate with each audience type.

Community Building and Brand Loyalty: Social media is also about building a community around your brand. Agencies that specialize in social media marketing will help you engage with your audience, respond to comments, and foster a sense of brand loyalty.

5. High-Quality Content Marketing

Valuable, Engaging Content Creation: Content marketing goes beyond basic blog posts. Expect a top digital marketing agency to create a variety of content types, including blogs, videos, infographics, and eBooks that attract, educate, and retain customers.

Consistent Content Distribution: Content isn’t just about creation; it’s about distribution. A reputable agency ensures your content reaches the right audience on the right platforms, from your website and email newsletters to social media and third-party sites, driving engagement and boosting SEO.

6. Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)

Enhancing the User Experience: The best digital marketing agencies prioritize user experience and conversion rate optimization. This involves optimizing landing pages, call-to-action buttons, and forms to increase the percentage of visitors who take desired actions, such as making a purchase or filling out a contact form.

Data-Driven Testing: CRO is data-intensive, requiring ongoing testing and refinement. Agencies use A/B testing and analytics to identify what’s working and what needs adjustment, ensuring that you’re getting maximum value from your website traffic.

7. Email Marketing for Customer Retention

Targeted Campaigns and Personalization: Email marketing is one of the most effective tools for customer retention. A quality digital marketing agency will create personalized, segmented email campaigns that nurture leads and encourage repeat business.

Automated Marketing Sequences: Expect advanced automation sequences that send emails based on user behavior, such as browsing history, purchase patterns, and engagement with past emails, keeping your brand top of mind for existing and potential customers.

8. Data-Driven Performance Tracking and Analytics

Comprehensive Reporting and Insights: One of the hallmarks of a top digital marketing agency is its transparency with data. Expect detailed, regular reports that highlight key performance indicators (KPIs) such as traffic, engagement, and conversions. This allows you to see the direct impact of each campaign.

Actionable Recommendations: Beyond just numbers, the best digital marketing services include actionable insights, helping you understand what the data means and how to optimize strategies for even better performance.

9. Transparent Communication and Support

Dedicated Account Management: Top agencies provide dedicated account managers who act as your main point of contact. They keep you informed about campaign progress, answer questions, and address any concerns.

Proactive, Regular Updates: Good communication is key to a successful partnership. The best agencies will offer proactive updates on campaigns, as well as regular meetings to discuss results, challenges, and opportunities for improvement.

Final Thoughts

Working with a digital marketing agency should be a partnership focused on long-term success, transparency, and achieving measurable results. By setting high standards and expecting a comprehensive approach, you can ensure you’re working with an agency that will not only provide the best digital marketing services but also act as a strategic partner in your business growth.

[scotianostra]

9th July 1861 saw the birth of the shipping merchant, philanthropist and art lover William Burrell.

William left school at 13 to join his father and brother in the family business as a shipping merchant. He bought his first painting while still at school, with a few shillings he got from selling a cricket bat. It was the beginning of his 75-year collecting career.

His father and grandfather were involved in shipping. and, on his father's death, William and his brother took over the running of the firm. They developed the technique of ordering modern, advanced ships at rock bottom prices when the shipping market was in a slump, thus trading with brand new ships when the market recovered and then selling, at a large profit, when the market was at a peak. William also had an eye for detail and an astute eye for opportunities.

Having learned that a squadron of Royal Navy ships were on a flag waving exercise in distant ports, he realised they were likely to run out of coal and sent some of his ships to one of the ports of call, selling the cargo at a handsome profit.

The brothers amassed a large fortune and Burrell entered into local politics. He was active in the setting up of the Glasgow International Art Exhibition in 1901. At the age of 40 he married Constance Mitchell, daughter of another ship-owner and the following year, with the birth of a daughter, the family moved to a "Greek" Thomson designed house in Great Western Road.

Having again built up a large fleet of modern vessels, the brothers sold most of them during the First World War - at more than three times the building cost. It was at this stage that Burrell effectively retired and devoted the rest of his life to being an art collector.

He had a wide range of tastes but built up an important collection of Chinese ceramics, tapestries, stained glass, silver, bronzes, Persian and Indian rugs and furniture, travelling widely in the process. In 1916 he bought Hutton Castle in the Borders, although he did not move in to the castle until 1927. The same year he was knighted for his public work and services to art. He always had a good eye for a bargain - a 14th century Chines porcelain ewer was bought for 85 pounds and is now worth over 250,000 pounds.

In 1944, he gave almost his entire collection to the city of Glasgow along with 250,000 to construct a building to house it. However, the terms of the bequest (he thought it should be in a rural setting) posed problems and it was not until the 1970s that a building for the Burrell Collection, in Pollok Country Park, was eventually completed.

Just this year, after a major refurbishment and redisplay the Burrell Collection reopened More of the Collection is on show than ever before and exciting new galleries bring the objects to life, including more than 90 digital displays offering interactive and immersive experiences for visitors of all ages.

The new displays also tell the stories of the man behind the Collection, Sir William Burrell and his family.

The Burrell Collection is open 7 days a week, entry is free but donations welcome.

[lethimfertilise]

About A Blue Stream

Ask me what dominates conversations as we step into 2025, and I’d answer without hesitation: gas. The topic has been dissected in detail by industry experts and news outlets, underscoring its critical importance. But beyond the headlines and analyses, a few lesser-discussed developments stand out, and they’re worth exploring.

The cracks in Iranian urea production started showing in December, as Iran’s gas shortages disrupted urea production. What followed was a ripple effect: Turkey ramped up purchases, creating unexpected openings for Russian suppliers to bypass Indian tenders and secure better deals elsewhere. Egyptian producers weren’t far behind, leveraging the same dynamics to their advantage. 

The end of Russian gas transit through Ukraine. Despite nearly three years of war, Russian gas continued to flow to the EU via Ukraine’s pipelines-a lifeline for many. But that era is now over, leaving all sides grappling with the fallout: 

Russia: Stuck with an oversupply of gas and limited capacity to develop new markets.  

Ukraine: Losing a critical source of transit revenue and facing rising energy costs in neighbouring Moldova and Romania. To complicate matters, the pipeline system could now become a target for Russian missiles. What’s next? A potential sale of Ukraine’s gas infrastructure, including its storage facilities, to an external player. 

The EU: Confronting intensified energy insecurity. European TTF prices have already soared to $15/MMBTu—almost double the price from a year ago.

Amid this upheaval, China emerges as the clear winner. With few alternative buyers for Russian gas, China is positioned to capitalise, potentially securing supplies on highly favourable terms. 

Meanwhile, whispers of a Qatari-Turkish pipeline through Syria were met with a firm denial from Qatar. But I can’t shake the feeling that this story is far from over. Keep an eye on this development—it may resurface in unexpected ways.

#imstory #fertilisers #fertilizers #gas #urea #market #china #iran #russia #ukraine #europe #qatar #syria #turkey #analysis 

[centrally-unplanned]

(As I close tabs) I thought the South Korean Small Businesses Suck blog post that was going around recently was very good for a "facts on the ground" summary - its a shockingly inefficient market sector, absolutely propped up by government largess and also simply part of an economy uninterested in allocating investments to fixing it and a society comfortable with that level of inefficiency. Its true low-hanging fruit that is difficult to pluck in the sclerotic age of today.

I am less convinced its a big part of the fertility transition in South Korea. Not zero, sure, but its big idea is that everyone is stuck in red queen races for the jobs at the best firms because the small business firms pay so badly. And that just isn't how people/societies tend to operate? People optimize their decisions but not that much, they don't have clear views of their future probability-adjusted wages ands are "studying more" in South Korea because the consequences are less. I think everyone rat races in a ton of societies, and there are other reasons that in the US or Japan that cuts off at a certain point while in South Korea it keeps ratcheting up.

And once someone is 30 and working at these small businesses they aren't in the main desperately clawing to switch over to samsung. That does happen in places! Look at Indian civil service exams takers, just sitting in abeyance waiting for retest opportunities for years wasting their time. It can happen, it just isn't what South Korea looks like. They switch over to their own career tracks, and are doing like crazy levels of after-work training to keep up at the low paid preschool or whatever. Huge numbers of people in South Korea don't go to college, or do vocational schools! Is their fertility higher? I haven't seen any evidence that is the case, or at least not by very much (like in most places lower income people have slightly higher fertility, I agree this plays a small role).

South Korea should fix this to be richer as a nation and more equal as a society; I think fixing their fertility woes is going come primarily from elsewhere.

[fatehbaz]

Yes, it is critical to acknowledge the centrality of Britain to the world economy in order to understand how Chinese and Indian tea fitted into it. [...] Asian tea relied on forms of employment [...] such as independent family farms in China and indentured ‘coolies’ in India. [...] It would be very difficult to explain how and why Asian tea became driven by the modern dynamics of accumulation then, unless we connect China and India to the broader global division of labor, centered on the most cutting-edge industrial sectors in the north Atlantic. [...] But I also wish to reframe the idea of British capital as “protagonist,” because when we think about capital, agency is a weird thing. [...] Nothing about accumulation is inherently loyal to this or that region, though it has been concentrated in certain sites, such as nineteenth-century Britain or twentieth-century US, and it has been territorialized by nationalist institutions. Thus, although British firms drove the Asian tea trade at first, by the twentieth century Indian and Chinese nationalists alike protested British capital [...].

Most economic histories were focused on whether other countries could ever develop into nineteenth-century England. For labor historians, Mike Davis recently wrote, the “classical proletariat” was the working classes of the North Atlantic from 1838-1921. These modular assumptions jump out when you flip through the classics of Asian economic and labor history, almost always focused on some sort of textile industry (silk, cotton, jute) and in cities such as Shanghai, Osaka, Bombay, Calcutta. By contrast, I was really inspired by a field pioneered by South Asia scholars known as “global labor history” — especially the work of Jairus Banaji — which has been critical of the centrality of urban industry in economic history. Instead, these scholars reconsider labor in light of our current world of late capitalism, including transportation workers, agrarian families, servants, and unfree and coerced labor. These activities have enabled global capitalism to function smoothly for centuries but were overlooked because they did not share the spectacular novelty of the steam-powered factories of urban Europe, US, and Japan.

As far as how tea production worked: in simple terms, Chinese tea was a segmented trade and Indian tea was centralized in plantations known as ‘tea gardens.’ The Chinese trade relied on independent family farms, workshops in market towns, and porters ferrying tea to the coastal ports: Guangzhou (Canton) then later Fuzhou and Shanghai. By contrast, British officials and planters built Indian tea from scratch in Assam, which had not been nearly as commercialized as coastal China or Bengal. They first tried to replicate the ‘natural’ Chinese model of local agriculture and trade, but frustrated British planters ultimately decided to undertake all of the tasks themselves, from clearing the land to packaging the finished leaves. [...] Indian tea was championed as futuristic and mechanized. [...]

In India [...] the tea industry’s penal labor contract became one of the original cause célèbres of the nationalist movement in the 1880s. The plantations later became a site for strikes and hartals, the most famous occurring in the Chargola Valley in 1921. But even though tea workers chanted, “Gandhi Maharaj ki jai” at the time, Gandhi himself had allegedly visited Assam and declined to see the workers, meeting instead with British planters to assure them they were safe. While Indian nationalists had politicized indenture in Assam tea, their main complaint was the racialized split between British capital and Indian labor. Their remedy was not to liquidate the tea gardens but to diversify ownership over them. The cause of labor was subordinated to the nationalist struggle.

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All text above, words of Andrew B. Liu. As interviewed by Mark Frazier. Transcript published as “Andrew B. Liu - Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India.” Published online by India China Institute. 23 March 2020. [Some paragraph breaks and contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

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it has been remarkable to see the speed at which the libertarian/capitalist right has turned on their temporary allies in the downwardly mobile middle class white man faction. Throwing the Indian tech worker in that tweet is an incredibly directed insult

it’s also been remarkable to see how naive the far right were, to think that the libertarians were actually as racist as the media said they were.

I’ll admit with some embarrassment that I’m disappointed. I voted against the trump ticket for moral reasons, as well as climate change and a few other topics, but if they had to win, I was hoping that I’d at least get some blatant racial favoritism as a small consolation prize, and maybe enough extra societal clout to protect my family and people I care about. Full steam ahead Silicon Valley takeover is the worst possible timeline

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to clarify, because that ask makes me sound like a lunatic: I morally dislike racism, but the anti-immigration right wing at least offers me one single thing that benefits me and those I care about. Employment hypercompetition against everyone else on Earth sounds very bad. the democrats nominally dislike me for my race/gender, but are right about most things, and are mostly pretty half ass about actually discriminating against me. The Rufos and Hananias of the libertarian-ish tech right are offering me literally nothing that benefits me, and they’re wrong about all the issues I care about. It’s the worst possible deal.

(I got this last week, only got around to really writing something now.)

You have some interesting points and mix of views. Median voter in my inbox?

I find identitarian politics paired with demands for discrimination against rival groups, whether through DEI and affirmative action hires or through exclusion of immigrants and kicking women out of the workplace, to be an odd combination. If you really think your group is the best one around, shouldn't they do just fine in a competitive labor market? All they would need is a level, colorblind playing field and they should win out. (I understand this is not your viewpoint, but just wanted to throw it in)

That aside, you still have a lot to lose from widespread racial favoritism!

First of all, the whites who are going to be on the hiring committees for the prestigious jobs are going to lean liberal, and liberal whites already favor other groups over whites. White in-group favoritism is mostly found among the loser whites who won't be helping you swing a lawyer/data scientist job. So this is already a bit of a dead end.

Secondly and more seriously, labor markets (and post-secondary school applications) allow us to match talent with where it is best put to use through comparative advantage (labor markets) or standardized testing (school applications). Getting people to the positions they're best suited for is very important, and it's already difficult due to search frictions!

Say that everyone went out and discriminated in favor of their race to an equal, moderate level. In this case, it would all mostly balance out in racial bias, except now everyone is worse-matched into jobs that match their competence and every firm and institution now ends up less competent.

And if you think about your place in the economy, you'll see that you are very, very dependent on dozens of firms and institutions doing their jobs well. A 3% competence hit across the board would hurt pretty badly!

Lastly, just about immigration specifically, the funny thing is that immigrants are not perfect substitutes for domestic workers, who have better English-language communication skills. Here's a pretty good assessment of the immigration and labor markets situation:

If you take in a pretty broad selection of professions, then no indiviual sector should be flooded and see wages collapse for native workers.

A big issue I care about is the increasing returns to scale in economies - more people doing high-skill jobs means more people thinking of prouctivity-enhancing ideas which can be spread non-rivalrously throughout the economy, making everyone richer. This would be particularly important for technology-related professions, so STEM workers are probably the most vital. Immigration of high-skill workers is a very good route towards this.

I do think immigration can be done badly - Europe has some serious problems with hardcore Islamic migrants who do not want to assimilate, while being very costly welfare recipients, economically unproductive, and often very violent. But this is not the case in the USA.

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One line I've seen among more think-ey antiwoke right wingers is that they just want white people to be allowed to have identity politics too; is that too much to ask?

I think that sounds like an even worse case than the current situation, as the largest ethnic group in every western country embracing identitarianism would make the entire country about ten percent stupider and less functional, and hopefully the above points go some way to explaining why.