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7th December 2012

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

The return of Boris to Bollyland: 48 hours of business

Boris Johnson with English cricket team

Many people in London, and other parts of the UK, think they know a good deal about the Mayor of the capital, Boris Johnson: judging from the number of British tourists who greeted him in hotels or on the streets of Mumbai he must also be one of our most widely recognised politicians. Less well […]

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15th October 2012

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

The Power of We – Mahatma Gandhi

No-one in India exemplifies ‘The Power of We’ more than Mahatma Gandhi, even over 60 years after his death. He sought to improve the conditions of the poorest and to lead one of the world’s first non-violent mass movements, first in South Africa and then in India. Hundreds of books have been written about his influence on […]

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8th July 2011

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

A dark side of Mumbai – and a home away from ‘home’

A small group from the Deputy High Commission went after work one evening to a part of Mumbai we wouldn’t normally visit. Kamathipura has numerous small businesses, and like every part of the city is a great example of entrepreneurism. That evening we saw the dark side of business, calling on the founder  of an […]

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3rd May 2011

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

New UK trade and investment minister’s first overseas visit – to India, and Mumbai

The importance the British Government attaches to enhancing relations with India was underlined in March when Lord Green visited the country, including Mumbai. Lord Green has just weeks ago taken on the position of Minister of Trade and Investment, and his first official overseas visit was to India. Lord Green is well known to many […]

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20th April 2011

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

5m people, an economy growing at 11.5 per cent – Ingredients for a “second tier” city in India

I made two visits recently to the State of Gujarat in Western India, both of which underline the enormous potential for UK companies in India, and the scale of developments here. At the end of March a team from our trade and investment operation in Mumbai travelled to Surat, the second largest city in Gujarat, […]

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11th February 2011

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by Greg Dorey

Diplomat

The green race

Presidency work at the British Embassy in Budapest is not confined to formal Presidency calendar events. We are also assisting with the intensive bilateral engagement of UK Ministers and senior officials with their Hungarian counterparts. Thanks to the heightened UK interest in all things Hungarian these days, these exchanges often go beyond immediate EU policy […]

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27th January 2011

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

‘Let’s show booming India that we know our onions!’ Boris Johnson

Two senior figures in British politics were in Mumbai in January – Vince Cable and Boris Johnson.                         Boris Johnson and Peter Beckingham Two senior figures in British politics were in Mumbai in January – Vince Cable, Cabinet Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills, and Boris Johnson, The Mayor of London. They don’t […]

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21st December 2010

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

A 350 km walk through the Indian countryside, £100,000 raised for charities – and memories for life

I am proud and a little relieved that my wife completed her trek in the footsteps of Gandhi. I am proud and a little relieved to write after my last blog that my wife completed her 350 kilometre trek in the footsteps of Gandhi’s famous Salt March of 1930 at the beginning of December. The […]

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10th December 2010

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

Walking 358km in the footsteps of Gandhi

On  Thursday 18 November forty  people gathered  pre-dawn at one of India’s most historic sites, the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, where Mahatma Gandhi lived for many years. The occasion was the beginning of an India-UK Friendship Walk, which my wife Jill  has organised with massive support from members of the Association of British Scholars in […]

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23rd November 2010

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by Peter Beckingham

Former governor in Turks and Caicos Islands

Diamonds in the offing, but no regalia for the Lord Mayor

I had an opportunity to see and hear about some of the colossal opportunities and developments outside Mumbai, in the State of Madhya Pradesh.  The State, which straddles the centre of India, remains one of the poorest areas of the country, with high figures for incidents of malnutrition among children and low levels of income […]

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