Comments on: Namaste America http://6ampacific.com/2006/07/02/namaste-america/ Basab Pradhan's weblog about business and life in a 'flat world'. 6 AM Pacific is the best time for a global conference call. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:06:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Aaman Lamba http://6ampacific.com/2006/07/02/namaste-america/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Aaman Lamba Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:35:18 +0000 http://sixampacific.com/?p=25#comment-117 Basab, excellent writing, and very inspiring blog - I am the publisher of Desicritics.org and would like to invite you to write for Desicritics - a leading source of news plus opinion on all things South Asian. Please email me and see this link for more info on Desicritics: <a href="http://desicritics.org/2006/01/25/205846.php" rel="nofollow">http://desicritics.org/2006/01/25/205846.php</a> Basab, excellent writing, and very inspiring blog – I am the publisher of Desicritics.org and would like to invite you to write for Desicritics – a leading source of news plus opinion on all things South Asian. Please email me and see this link for more info on Desicritics: http://desicritics.org/2006/01/25/205846.php

]]> By: Siddharth http://6ampacific.com/2006/07/02/namaste-america/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Siddharth Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:22:29 +0000 http://sixampacific.com/?p=25#comment-116 No doubt Indian mangoes are the best, plus India produces 58% of the total world output!! My love is more with the north indian varities like Langra, Chausa, Dusaeri. South indian varieties are not even close, not even alphonso (okay, that's west) Unfortunately even best products can fail in the market without the right image. E.g. Alphonso will be voted No.1 mango even if its not. Coming back to affinity between these 2 nice countries, synonym of India in the US is still a cow. Neither our doctors, engineers, professors could change that image. Nor the the press TIME, WSJ, NYT etc have been very successful to change that mental image. Let us now hope that mangoes can change hearts and minds! No doubt Indian mangoes are the best, plus India produces 58% of the total world output!! My love is more with the north indian varities like Langra, Chausa, Dusaeri. South indian varieties are not even close, not even alphonso (okay, that’s west)

Unfortunately even best products can fail in the market without the right image. E.g. Alphonso will be voted No.1 mango even if its not.

Coming back to affinity between these 2 nice countries, synonym of India in the US is still a cow. Neither our doctors, engineers, professors could change that image. Nor the the press TIME, WSJ, NYT etc have been very successful to change that mental image. Let us now hope that mangoes can change hearts and minds!

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