The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise

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He has supported a new eye hospital for the poor in Lagos and the KVOWRC Foundation in Nairobi for a rehabilitation centre for young, orphan girls. For those who think that Britain's imperial record has been badlytraduced, maligned and misinformed the acquisition of this book for20-25 pounds will be a good investment. Taylor Swift sparkles in dazzling silver bodysuit and boots at Eras Tour stop in Sao Paulo... one week after fan's tragic death at Rio de Janeiro show

Eminent Sindhis and Sikhs including Lord Indarjit Singh were present at the London preview, arranged by Dr Lalvani. Lord Singh told us he thought the film was good and accurate and there was nothing he could find wrong with it. Sir Rod Stewart flashes the middle finger at the Celtic v Motherwell football match after he is booed byThe Green Brigade But too much emphasis on these failures ignores the far more beneficent side of the ledger, in which the British brought India a unique mix of liberalism and innovation. In 1991 Sir Fraser began his work by threading a molecular ring onto a thin molecular axle and demonstrated that the ring was able to move along the axle. Among his developments based on his ‘rotaxanes’ are a molecular lift, a molecular muscle and a molecule-based computer chip. Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science Museum. Image: Jody Kingzett, courtesy of the Science Museum Extremely well judged, factually accurate, with a wealth of fascinating material ... This book adds hugely to our knowledge. --Strictly's Bobby Brazier to perform in memory of his mother Jade Goody in moving routine... one week after Dianne Buswell's father begins chemotherapy White Lotus stars Meghann Fahy and Leo Woodall kept romance private over fears they would 'disrupt the show'

Olivia Munn and John Mulaney celebrate son Malcolm's second birthday with tropical getaway: 'Sunshine, my only sunshine' India has always been dogged by the most appalling poverty. Isn't that also a legacy of British rule? He points out, it's now almost 70 years since the British left India and the poverty is almost as bad as it's ever been. If there is a villain to be fingered here - someone responsible for keeping India bumping along the bottom - it's not a representative of British rule. Instead, we should be pointing accusingly at none other than Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. It was Nehru who sided with Stalin and his bankrupted Soviet Union. 'As a result, India's pace of industrial growth was seriously stunted, depriving the country of precious financial development funds from the U.S. and European nations and the benefits of the post-war business boom.' Gulu Lalvani was born to a Sindhi Sikh family in March 1939, in Karachi, Sind, British India (now in Pakistan). [1] His family moved to Bombay after the partition of India, where he was raised and educated. [2] He was one of nine brothers and sisters. His brothers Kartar Lalvani and Pratap Singh Lalvani are also businessmen who founded Binatone with him. Kartar is also the founder of the nutraceutical company Vitabiotics, which is currently run by his son Tej Lalvani. Gulu's youngest sister is the socialite Bina Ramani ( néeLalvani), after whom Binatone was named. [3] [4] The family subsequently migrated to London during the 1960s. [2] Career [ edit ]

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When the British arrived, India was a fragmented country of many kingdoms. First with the East India Company, and later with the Raj, the British helped to build a new nation in India. The audacity and scale of this endeavour, the courage and enterprise needed to deliver massive infrastructure more than 12,000 miles over an arduous five-month journey each way. Absolutely excellent: informative, well argued and passionate. This book contains the seeds of future Anglo-Indian cooperation. By 1922, 15 per cent of civil servants were Indian and by 1941 that figure had climbed to over 50 per cent. When the British handed over power, they did so to a highly qualified, well-trained bureaucracy.Alluding to the ingrained connection between the circus and the Group’s aspirations, Quinton-Tulloch said: ‘We all love to be entertained; we all love to be amazed; we seek inspiration from others who show us what we might achieve.’ And it is the Science Museum Group that ignites ‘the spark that shows what [you] could do in science and technology’. Helen Sharman in conversation with her former chemistry tutor, Sir Fraser Stoddart. Image: Jody Kingzett, courtesy of the Science Museum The keynote speaker at the event was Scottish scientist, Sir Fraser Stoddart, Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, whose work on molecular machines led him to share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016 with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage. Dr Lalvani, OBE, DSc, founder and Chairman of one of Britain's mostsuccessful biotec companies and an Indian who settled in Britain fivedecades ago, has produced a very readable and hugely informed bookwhich in his own words "seeks to recognize the positive side of theimperial coin and to set the record straight". He was spurred to write thisbook on how British enterprise transformed India because in his manydecades of residence in Britain, "I have not encountered a single nativeBrit who has stated any form of belief that the British benefited India".

Lalvani’s brothers, Gulu and Partap (see box), were also forging entrepreneurial careers. Partap was working in Nigeria, so Lalvani tried Omega H-3 there and it was a success. It was the impetus Vitabiotics needed.Although Vitabiotics is known for its major marketing outdoor, print and TV campaigns boasting famous faces such as Nicole Scherzinger and David Gandy, Tej has recently focussed the business into digital channels. This includes incorporating large scale social media strategies to leverage online growth opportunities and engagement with millennials. Lalvani was born in Karachi in 1931. His father was a successful pharmacist and the family lived comfortably. But in 1947, the partition of India forced them to flee to Bombay, where they had to start their lives over from nothing. Lalvani recalls it as a devastating period in his life. Aged just 16, he had to leave his secure, contented life and move to an unknown city more than 500 miles away.