[silk] Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong | Video on TED.com

2013-03-20 Thread Ingrid Srinath
This TED Talk touches on some of the perverse disincentives non-profits face that hamper scale, innovation, sustainability and impact. They are issues I've grappled with, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, for 15 years. Aspects have featured on silk previously. The proposed Indian Direct Tax

Re: [silk] myanmar - visa on arrival for indians ?

2013-03-20 Thread ashok _
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Thaths wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Ingrid wrote: > > > I followed Mahesh Murthy's advice and got a same-day visa (with my Indian > > passport) at the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok. Hotel booking confirmation, > > e-ticket, photograph were all that were

Re: [silk] myanmar - visa on arrival for indians ?

2013-03-20 Thread Thaths
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Ingrid wrote: > I followed Mahesh Murthy's advice and got a same-day visa (with my Indian > passport) at the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok. Hotel booking confirmation, > e-ticket, photograph were all that were necessary. Turn up at the embassy > in the morning, fill

Re: [silk] myanmar - visa on arrival for indians ?

2013-03-20 Thread Ingrid
On 20-Mar-2013, at 5:15 PM, ashok _ wrote: > According to the Myanmar government website, Indian passport holders can > get a visa on arrival (upto 70 days for a business visa ) : > > http://www.mip.gov.mm/visaonarrival/ > > But is this still valid ? Has anyone tried it ? > > Ashok I followe

Re: [silk] myanmar - visa on arrival for indians ?

2013-03-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The second reason for that is that visa on arrival requirements keep changing For example malaysia had visa on arrival for indians, then all of a sudden withdrew VoA for people coming from chennai I'm kind of lucky I read this somewhere on google news BEFORE I flew out of chennai to KL some ye

Re: [silk] myanmar - visa on arrival for indians ?

2013-03-20 Thread Salil Tripathi
You are right -having a local middleman does help. Salil On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Andy Deemer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:15 PM, ashok _ wrote: > > > > According to the Myanmar government website, Indian passport holders can > > get a visa on arrival (upto 70 days for a busine

Re: [silk] myanmar - visa on arrival for indians ?

2013-03-20 Thread Salil Tripathi
You need a local sponsor to sign a letter confirming it, and send you a fax. You will need it to board.Then need to show it to the immigration on arrival - there's a separate queue - and they'll verify with the fax they have received. You will need a Myanmar-registered business inviting you for a

Re: [silk] myanmar - visa on arrival for indians ?

2013-03-20 Thread Andy Deemer
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:15 PM, ashok _ wrote: > > According to the Myanmar government website, Indian passport holders can > get a visa on arrival (upto 70 days for a business visa ) : > > http://www.mip.gov.mm/visaonarrival/ > > But is this still valid ? Has anyone tried it ? For US-passports,

[silk] myanmar - visa on arrival for indians ?

2013-03-20 Thread ashok _
According to the Myanmar government website, Indian passport holders can get a visa on arrival (upto 70 days for a business visa ) : http://www.mip.gov.mm/visaonarrival/ But is this still valid ? Has anyone tried it ? Ashok

[silk] Interesting McKinsey report on the internet in India

2013-03-20 Thread Udhay Shankar N
The entire report is here [1], but the key bits are below: Udhay [1] http://www.mckinsey.com/locations/india/mckinseyonindia/pdf/Executive_Summary_Online_and_upcoming_The_Internet_impact_on_India.pdf Our report offers seven key findings concerning the impact of and outlook for the Internet in