Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Las Hayas Resort, Ushuaia

Set in a natural five hectare deciduous forest of beech trees (hayas) right below the glacier Le Martial, Las Hayas Resort is a luxury boutique hotel. Spreading across a vast area to offer comfort and luxury at this end of the world, it can be rightly categorised as a contemporary-classic resort....Continue

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Monday, October 13, 2008

She is the ruler of millions of French hearts

French President, Nicolas Sarkozy''s popularity has soared after his marriage to Carla Bruni

If an American first lady, or would-be first lady, described herself as a "tamer of men" and had a "man-eating" past filled with naked pictures, Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, sultry prone CD covers, breaking up marriages, bragging that sheMaureen Dowd believes in polygamy and polyandry rather than monogamy, and having a son with a married philosopher whose father she had had an affair with, it would take more than an appearance on "The View" to sweeten her image.

It's hard to imagine the decibel level on Fox News if Michelle Obama put out a CD this summer, as Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is, with songs featuring lyrics like "I am a child/despite my 40 years/despite my 30 lovers/a child"; and this song, "Ma came": "You are my junk/more deadly than Afghan heroin/more dangerous than Colombian white. ... /My guy, I roll him up and smoke him."

Or if Michelle gave an interview, as Carla did in a new book, "La Véritable Histoire de Carla et Nicolas," revealingNicolas Sarkozy & Carla Bruni that she fell in love with her husband for his many fertile brains. "I didn't expect someone so funny and so alive," she said, recalling their blind date at a dinner party.

One chapter of the book is called "Le Diable s'Habille en Carla," or "The Devil Wears Carla." And the most repeated anecdote is the one where Carla slyly teases the French justice minister, Rachida Dati, a Sarko protégé, as they pass by a bed in the Elysee: "You would have loved to occupy it, wouldn't you?"...Continue

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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Gas them all, we say!

The lethargy to move to alternative fuel seems almost insane...

In Japan, while Honda rolled Oilout its first hydrogen powered car, another Japanese company, Genepax, has gone one step ahead in making a prototype which runs on water by extracting the hydrogen for fuelling the engine. This should be seen in the background that hell-raisers (economists, if we may) now claim that the price of oil could even touch $200 per barrel in months to come. And though it might be too early to prefigure the shape of things, one thing is for sure, that the short journey to a new world where the need to plead and live with a prayer for oil price to come down, has already begun.

Yet, the real question is whether the energy problem is really so grave or is it simply a result of inertia of developing countries to strive for alternatives. And especially so in developing economies like, say, India. A report by the Global Environment Facility of the UNDP on India’s Coal Bed Methane (CBM) extraction potential states, “It is estimated that in India, the largest coal producer in the world, there are around 20,000 sq km of area where CBM capture could be carried out and that the country’s recoverable reserves of methane are 800 billion cubic metres, with a gas production potential of 105 million cubic metres a day over 20 years.”...continue

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Friday, October 03, 2008

Ringing in a vas strategy

After losing out in the race to add millions of new customers, Ratan Tata has decided that apart from boosting Tata Tele’s subscriber base, he will focus on the more-profitable, higher-margin value-added services By devdeep singh


“We were perhaps the last to join the telecom race in India, but over the past few years, we are the fastest-growing brand in the country. At the end of February 2008, with more than three million subscribers, we are the second-largest player in the important Delhi and NCR region,” claims Anil Sardana, MD, Tata Teleservices. But even as one hears Sardana dole out such statistics, one distinctly feels that there is some sort of a disconnect between what he’s saying and the subscribers’ base figures that are regularly released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

With around 23 million subscribers, Tata Teleservices stands at the No. 5 position in the great telecom race, behind behemoths like Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone Essar and BSNL. “Tata has been a laggard. It has grown at a decent pace but obviously their execution has not been quite at par with that of other biggies,” says Harit Shah, Telecom Analyst at Angel Trade. “Lack of market-centric strategies and restricting to limited number of product and service offering did not work in favor of the company,” adds Shushmul Maheshwari, Telecom Analyst at RNCOS. But the Tata strategy is different from those of its competitors. Since the inception of Tata Tele in 1996, the company has chosen to concentrate on margins and profitability, rather than chase volumes (as is the case with the others).....Continue

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