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2008-10-25 Thread Radhika, Y.
actually IT types in Bangalore are not wannabe Americans; they are wannabe Californians. Yankee reserve and fiscal conservatism is something they have not encountered. On BNN I recently heard someone describe the situation of the average American as being that of a people where two generations ha

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2008-10-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ss [26/10/08 06:49 +0530]: Nobody, but nobody would ever ever quote the price of an apartment, and when the price was eventually quoted I have rarely heard a figure less than 40 lakhs. 40 lakhs (4 million)? Maybe 1bhk somewhere way way out of town. In madras, 2bhk in Adyar is around 1 crore (

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2008-10-25 Thread ss
On Sunday 26 Oct 2008 6:17:05 am Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > property prices are set to tumble post Diwali. I may be mistaken and since I am not on the lookout for an apartment I don;t really follow these things closely, but I have heard a spate of radio ads in the last few weeks advertisin

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2008-10-25 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Gautam John [25/10/08 23:32 +0530]: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't think Indians digest bad news as easily as the rest of the world, everyone seems to be pinning their hopes on a good Diwali. From what I've heard, property prices are set

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2008-10-25 Thread Gautam John
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think Indians digest bad news as easily as the rest of the world, > everyone seems to be pinning their hopes on a good Diwali. >From what I've heard, property prices are set to tumble post Diwali. -- Pleas

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2008-10-25 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 25-Oct-08, at 7:32 AM, "Ramakrishnan Sundaram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2008/10/25 Aadisht Khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: We must be living in different Indias. My experiences: house prices to collapse as they surely must. Nobody is getting telemarketing calls for overdrafts or credit car

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2008-10-25 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
2008/10/25 Aadisht Khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: We must be living in different Indias. My experiences: > house prices to collapse as they surely must. Nobody is getting > telemarketing calls for overdrafts or credit cards anymore. I'm being pestered with calls for Barclays, ICICI and Amex cards e

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2008-10-25 Thread Aadisht Khanna
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any first-hand reports from the trenches? > > http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/23/business/rupee.php > > Eugen, is there anything specific you're looking for? Consumer credit is in very bad shape. Many banks have decid

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2008-10-25 Thread Sajith T S
Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Possible sample selection bias, but the 4 flights I've been on in the > past two weeks have been full. Plus I've been multiple times to the > Reliance Digital store this week (only once to buy) and every time the > store has been busy. On one o

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2008-10-24 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
Possible sample selection bias, but the 4 flights I've been on in the past two weeks have been full. Plus I've been multiple times to the Reliance Digital store this week (only once to buy) and every time the store has been busy. On one of these visits I actually remarked to someone that th

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2008-10-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
Any first-hand reports from the trenches? http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/23/business/rupee.php Credit crunch ensnares India By Jeremy Kahn Thursday, October 23, 2008 NEW DELHI: The showroom at Uppal Motors, a Honda motorcycle dealership not far from here in an upscale satellite city of I