SaffronStays Nirmay is a beautiful bunglow designed with Maratha charm and traditional look. With modern comforts and amenities blend in unique style and layout, and the well appointed three huge bedrooms, library stocked with books, indoor games, a nice garden with colourful flowers and a private swimming pool located in the midst of nature.......
In the early part of the year we had an opportunity
to visit this unique place in the countryside. It was a pleasant stay for a
couple of days and a good and deserving break during the pandemic. SaffronStays
Nirmay located at Village Kodawadi, Taluka Velhe, Torana-Rajgad, about 34 km
from Pune, has a scenic and breathtaking view of the hills in the background,
green vegetation and fields in the front.
It has the traditional Maratha wada-type
look, well furnished, simple and attractive. The place has a well-planned
layout with a creative and professional touch and greenery around, making the
place friendly, inviting and comfortable. Experience the life in the
countryside staying in the comfort of your home.
SaffronStays Nirmay is a beautiful bunglow designed
with Maratha charm and traditional look. With modern comforts and amenities
blend in unique style and layout, and the well appointed three huge bedrooms,
library stocked with books, indoor games, a nice garden with colourful flowers
and a private swimming pool located in the midst of nature. The hills behind
the home and with fields in front, orchard and rural life around make the place
unique with a rural feel, offering you a pleasant experience, and an ideal
place to chill with family and friends.
It has been featured in Vogue and Grazia, Nirmay is
a spacious ground plus one storey bunglow with three big bedrooms with attached
bathrooms. On the ground floor is the hall or lounge, well furnished with
antique ware and flat-screen television to sit and relax. And nearby is the
bar, kitchen and a large well laid out dining table to enjoy your tasty meals
in comfort. And has a private barbeque too to savor and chill out in the
evenings. Have wifi, an open veranda with chairs for relaxing and enjoying panoramic
view of the scenery around and parking area for vehicles.
It is managed by a trained staff of two, male and a
female. Both are smart, polite and efficient. Their cooking, especially the
local woman is impressive and tasty, serving authentic homely vegetarian and
non-vegetarian meals and snacks of your choice. Most of the vegetables are fresh
from their fields. A good stay and good food is the hallmark of this place.
Nearby is the ISKON temple, hence there’s constant
traffic in and out on the approach road. But once you cross this place its
quiet and peaceful. Nirmay also offers a few good options – Go trekking up the
hills behind the home or catch the view of the Bhatghar Dam. If you love fort
trekking, located close by is Torna and Rajgad forts. During the monsoon one
can have a beautiful drive with greenery all around to Madhe ghat and catch the
spectacular view of the waterfall. You can even head over to Gunjwani Dam and
experience boating.
Nirmay is ideally located which is not very far
from other popular holiday spots, Mahableshwar is about 38 km from here and
Lavasa is about 27 km. The nearest airport is Pune around 43 km. I would
recommend this place for families and friends. Staying at least for a couple of
days is essential to enjoy the place and surroundings and get a feel of the
countryside. Be rejuvenated in the true sense!
This is an inspiring story of Svetlana Dorokhina, a pretty young Russian woman who accidently took up painting inspired by her father who left her during the pandemic.......
Svetlana Dorokhina is a self-taught pretty and
talented Russian painter who was inspired to start painting after the sudden
death of her father during the recent pandemic. May be it’s a tribute to her
father and her expression of the feeling of his sudden loss. Her creative
expression through art to overcome the loss is inspiring with her talent being
exhibited through the work of art. The paintings give a peek into her inner mind.
Her father, in a way was an unknown and
unrecognized artist. He worked as a fire-fighter and did painting as a passion
after the divorce from his wife. Maybe he was expressing his anger or sorrow
through the painting? Svetlana feels sad that his thought and creative work was
not seen by the world or his talent recognized.
Svetlana does big and small oil paintings mainly on
nature and scenery. She has a small but good collection of oil paintings
created by her over the years. It’s her way of expressing her feelings for her
dad and keeping alive his memory. This seems to have brought out the best in her through her paintings.
Though she’s a self-taught painter, she claims to
be an ardent student of top and renowned Russian painters like Igor Medvedev, I
Sakharov, N Yurshina, M Mankov and others. She was inspired by their style,
creativity and their artworks. She tries to infuse these ideas in her
paintings. It appears to some extent she has succeeded and influenced her work.
Her collection of paintings is creative, attractive
and profoundly meaningful with a natural feel. The strokes and colour make her
artworks lively. She expects the world to see her creative artworks by buying
her paintings which will encourage her to do better and focus on it to keep the
memory of her dad alive. Hope her paintings will evoke interest among the readers and collectors of art.
If anyone wishes to buy her paintings, may get in
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You can even get a book on Kindle cheaper than you would from a bookstore.
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E-readers like the Amazon Kindle use e-ink, which
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The present Kindle is the latest generation of the
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Future and Amazon tussle is getting hot as the days
go by. Future and Amazon have been locked in a bitter legal tussle
after the US e-commerce giant dragged Future Group to arbitration at
the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) in October 2020, arguing
that FRL had violated their contract by entering into a deal for the sale of
its assets to billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail on a slump sale basis
for Rs 24,713 crore.
The Reliance deal fell last month after the lenders
to FRL rejected it. But prior to that, Reliance group, referred to as MDA group
by Amazon, took over operations of dozens of Future stores after the retailer
failed to pay rent. Amazon has accused independent directors
of Future Retail Ltd (FRL) of facilitating "fraudulent
stratagem" of transfer of 835 stores to billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance
group, saying the narrative of that transfer was on account of failure to pay
huge outstanding rent was a "sham" as the retailer had a month prior
to such move stated that outstanding rent was only Rs 250 crore.
The US retailer wrote on May 19 to independent
directors of FRL stated that the firm had in meeting with core lender banks on
January 1, 2022, "categorically admitted that the unpaid rental dues was
Rs 250 crore only. FRL further stated that it voluntarily retained the
amount."And it doesn’t make sense when they say that since Future failed
to pay the outstanding rent that Reliance took over operations.
"Surprisingly, FRL had managed to do so without discontinuing any of its
operations or handing over its stores," it wrote. "Consequently, any
narrative that there was a purported transfer on account of failure to pay huge
outstanding rent for as many as 835 retail stores, that too as quickly as on
February 26, 2022, is nothing but a sham and a false narrative to regulators,
creditors, the shareholders and the Courts."
There are many ways of looking at this business episode. Big Bazaar, a
big brand doing well and a competitor of Reliance in retail market was finished off by Reliance. Future
group got a good deal for Big Bazaar. Future group and Reliance tried to test
Amazon and got into trouble and a big mess. Let’s wait and see who emerges the
winner or will it be a draw!
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Today advertising and marketing is a must to promote and sell any product or service. Powerful advertising plays a major role in achieving this awareness and success. It is the result of detail study, planning and precise execution. This is communication at its best.
(The writer has more than 20 years experience
in advertising and corporate communication. His clients have included big
businesses as well as dozens of small businesses. He has worked as a
copy-writer, visualizer and media buyer.)
In general terms, advertising is a marketing
communication that employs a message to promote or sell a brand, product,
service or idea. The purpose of advertising is to inform the consumers about
their product and convince customers that a company's services or products are
the best, enhance the image of the company, point out and create a need for the
products or services, or demonstrate new models or version of established
products in the market or announce new products and programs.
The three types of media commonly known are Press
media, Television and outdoor media. And now you also have social media, and
web media. Then you have two types of advertising - institutional and product or
service. Institutional advertising is used to improve or promote a company's or
brand image instead of promoting an individual product. Product advertising
promotes the product or service to the target market by focusing on the benefits.
Normally there are three main objectives of
advertising – to inform about the brand or offering, to persuade to buy or
to remind and reinforce the brand message. An advertising strategy is a
plan to reach and persuade a customer to buy a product or a service.
Today advertising and marketing is a must to
promote and sell any product or service. Powerful advertising plays a major
role in achieving this awareness and success. It is the result of detail study, planning and precise execution. This is communication at its best. Great ideas
and creative ad campaign don’t just pop up from nowhere; they are built on the
key communication ideas and concepts that motivate sales. The end result is the
sale for the advertiser. If this is achieved, the ad campaign has clicked and
created an impact.
Advertising that increase your sales and profits is
the target. To achieve this, a lot of thinking and effort goes into it to get
it right. If you begin by understanding motivation, communication and
perception, you will be able to produce the kind of advertising you want.
Understanding who your target audience is, what your business, product or
service can mean to them, and what concept, design, copy messages and media
they will respond to is essential. This is called Positioning. It is the
foundation for effective and successful advertising.
The correct decision at the outset will make your
advertising more effective. Making the right decision before putting your
hard-earned money into the media will add value and make your money stretch
farther. And get an enhanced response from the consumer. Here are a few
important points to decide before starting out:
*How do I get the best concept, design and copy
writing?
*Should I hire experts or professionals or do it
myself?
*Which media are right for me?
*How to and where to set my budget?
This will help to work out the ad strategy each
time you plan a campaign. And your advertising will have more impact and be
consistent because it has been consciously and carefully planned covering all
aspects – budget, media and creative ads.
One has three major options for creating and
producing your ads and ad campaign. You can hire an advertising agency, or you
can lead a team of freelance copy writers, visualisers, designers and other
professionals, provided you are familiar with creating ads and media. One
should understand the value and effectiveness of the media – Television, radio,
newspapers, direct mail, digital, social media and outdoor advertising. Apart
from this, Public relations, participating or sponsorship of big events and
endorsements too help in a big way to create awareness. Press releases too help
to reach out to many people.
Some points to remember:
*Creating an identity – the most important thing
you will incorporate in the advertising.
*Positioning for visibility and success.
*Getting started with your ad plans.
*Creating designs with effective copy-writing that
appeals, motivates and sells.
If you hire an ad agency, they will take over
everything from conceptualization, designing, copy, models, shooting and other
things connected with production and work out the budget for the ads and ad
campaign, and charge for all their services rendered. Selection of a good ad
agency with professionals in all the departments, with good track record, with
everything under one roof help to make your advertising campaign creative,
effective and result-oriented. Ultimately helps to create awareness and generate
sales.
Advertising informs, educates, motivates and
generates sales. If your ad campaign does this, you have achieved your purpose
of an effective and successful ad campaign. Successful IPL is the result of
aggressive advertising and marketing. Take any successful brand in India or
abroad, their rise is due an effective and aggressive campaign. You can have a
big impact with a small budget!
Adani group firms' gross debt
rises to Rs 2.2 trillion
These days one hears a lot about Adani group
entering new areas. Recent data shows, the Adani group as one of the most
indebted among India's top business groups. Entering new areas and take over
are one of the main reasons. The Adani group continues to use debt financing to
grow its existing businesses and enter new industries.
The combined
gross debt of the group companies reached a new high of Rs 2.22 trillion at the
end of March this year, up 42 per cent from Rs 1.57 trillion a year ago,
according to data from Capitaline.
As a result, the group’s gross debt-to-equity ratio was at a four-year
high of 2.36 at the end of March, up from 2.02 a year ago and a low of 1.98 at
the end of FY19.
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