Modern India

The most trusted brand in India for three years in row has been Nokia. This relates to the fact that mobile phones are everywhere. And these devices are the first widespread channels to communications and Internet access in this country.

Business parks and incubators are popping up around the country in most of the metropolitan areas or the wannabees, the future metropolies. At the moment, the incubation offering is focused in land and buildings, soon it will include all services required in business incubation ecosystems.

The metropolitan cities of India have their satellites that house the big number or industrial facilities, call centers and apartment high rise & low rise buildings targeted for expatriates and fast growing upper middle class of the modern India.

Luxury India

Luxury hotels and resorts, shopping malls more modern than most in the USA or Europe, Porches and Harley Davidsons, fully equipped aprtments with all possible embedded electronics. Some people really enjoy what money can buy in India.

I read an article in local entrepreneurial magazine. More than two million people have enough extra cash to invest more than one million euro to stock or other instruments. Extra cash means that they already have nice home, more than one imported car and other basic amenities. The most expensive private house is actually in Mumbai, the cost was over one billion USD.

Here is something that surprisingly many ex-pats have not known before I told them: There is a new western style supermarket, Big Bazaar, for buying food in Vasant Kunj shopping mall. The mall itself has two malls side by side, DLF Promenade Mall and Ambiance Mall. Seems to be really hard to find any good data about it online. The Big Bazaar supermarket is undeground somewhere between the two mall buildings. You can access it by going first to the Ambience mall and continue to the right hand side, or just ask the route to the Big Bazaar. Its upstairs sells clothes etc, downstairs sells food, kitchenware, shaving gel and evertyhing else but not fresh meat or fish.

Big Bazaar in Vasant Kunj

Resort just south of Chennai