Monthly Archives: March 2017

High Humidity in India and Its Negative Effects

The common and abrupt effect of high humidity is personal discomfort. When it is too hot and humid, our bodies are less efficient at releasing heat which means we sweat. However, this may not deem too dangerous some people might say. But going to work wearing a suit and tie while one’s shirt sticks to your body, and constantly wiping drips of sweat off the forehead!

 

Dust mites also love humidity, and they’re one of the main nemeses for people who suffer from asthma and allergies. Needless to say, all sorts of bacteria can originate in spaces with comparatively high humidity. People who stay in households or offices that are hit by mold growth and mildew get more often get sick, and their overall health is a lot poorer.

 

How To Combat High Humidity in India and Its Negative Effects with Dehumidifiers:

Humidity levels in the city of Mumbai peaked, hitting 98% in the of south Mumbai and 80% in the suburbs. Experts says, peaked moisture levels have great potential to hold pollutants. Changes in temperature, precipitation, drought, storms and floods can have negative and positive effects. In Chandigarh, a doctor from PGI infers, made a recent analysis. According to him, the old age prescription of covering oneself with a towel and inhaling steam to fight common cold may no longer be valid.  Doctor Meenu Singh analysed and reviewed all worldwide trials conducted on steam inhalation. She concluded in her published work that the process has no effect and only works as a feel good factor!
With ‘global warming’ distressing the world India included, the necessity for office and factory dehumidifier is ever increasing in all areas affected by high humidity. The awareness has been a great challenge. A muggy environment is a breeding ground for all types of microscopic organisms that can be detrimental to your health. Mildew and mold spores flourish in it, and they can be highly toxic once they get into your body. If mold is evidently noticeable inside your home, you have a problem that requires instant attention.

 

Companies can decrease waste, increase productivity and enhance manufacturing yields by ensuring the correct humidity level with a dehumidifier. It is very important to invest in a high quality dehumidification device because standard systems for heating, air-conditioning or ventilation cannot deliver the desired conditions. By getting a dehumidifier, it is likely to solve these problems if not the very least alleviate them.

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Can Indian Businesses Put Their Faith in Mystics & Yogis?

The east has always had its differences from the west. Since Roman times, the world has been split into two distinct spheres: the eastern empire and the western empire. The east, as Alexander the Great discovered, is a rich and exotic realm, with a flavour quite unlike that of its hemispheric counterpart. The spiritual overlaps the material in the east, and there is not the clear demarcation between the zones, as exists in western thought and deed. India, in many ways, is at the centre of eastern consciousness. It is, also, the gateway to this ‘other world’.

Can Indian Businesses Put Their Faith in Mystics & Yogis?

It is the twenty first century, however, a time of technology, Apple, Google, Microsoft and the digital age. Is there still a place for that overlap of the spiritual, the ghost in the machine? Can Indian businesses put their faith in mystics & yogis? Does it offer some unseen competitive edge? Or, is it the chain that drags this nation forever backwards? How does this rich tradition impact upon the modern Indian business person and their activities? Does it still shape Indian thinking? So many questions, it beggars belief that these answers must still be given, despite the ever-changing contemporary world.

Tradition is the bedrock of identity. The Indian yogi, guru and mystic: the Babaji, the Bhagwan, the Buddha, the Mahatma, the Saint, the Holy Man. These are all players on a spiritual stage, which dates back thousands of years. Disciples and devotees, Sannyasins and seekers, form a saffron line that snakes across a great land mass, which stretches from the Himalayas to the sea. Is it any wonder that people in India still believe and still seek out the guidance that these babas offer?

Astrology has its roots in India, coming over from Babylonia in ancient times, brought by the Aryans to this subcontinental land. Since then, stargazing has spread all over the globe, to every corner and crevice. Horoscopes are cast in Charlestown and Canberra, Kolkata and Koln, Cusco and Cheboksary. Transits are cast and examined for businesses, projects and ideas. Mergers, marriages and deals are assessed with the assistance of the zodiac. Even, maybe seeking our western psychics, to summon a little occidental magic. When it comes to measuring market trends, is there really anything truly scientific to it? We all like to pretend that sociology is a science, but deep down the tarot readers are just as scientific. Can Indian businesses put their faith in mystics & yogis? Psychic powers? Why not? Donald Trump and his ilk have been doing it for years.

 

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Healthcare Opportunities for Indians Worldwide

The West is no stranger to top-quality Indian healthcare workers operating in their countries. There are many fine doctors of Indian extraction helping people in both public and private practice in the US, the UK, Australia and elsewhere around the globe. In many ways, this is the classic story of hard working migrants getting ahead and their children going to college to graduate as medical professionals. It is also, about healthcare workers migrating directly from India to fill those places in Western nations. There are opportunities at all levels of the healthcare spectrum for Indians to find jobs.

Healthcare Opportunities for Indians Worldwide

Of the 175 million people who were living outside of their country of birth in the year 2000, some 65 million of these people were economically active. The WHO report, that these figures are drawn from, warns that the loss of the medical practitioners from the developing world is significant. Highly skilled, tertiary educated, professionals lost to the developing world, means the loss of their much-needed skills and a wasted investment by these nations through costly education services. Migration figures have double since the 1970s for healthcare workers from India and other developing countries to the West.

Indian podiatrists in India-centric communities such as Parramatta in Sydney, Australia, are one such example of this globalisation of skilled labour markets. Another, is the many Indians working as chiropractors in Sydney. Migration from Indian cities to cities in countries like Australia and the UK in the healthcare sector is increasing every year. It is the case of the individual bettering himself and his family, but at the expense of his country of origin. Democratic nations, however, cannot prevent this movement, which is, generally, based on economic determiners. Only through the overall economic growth of India can they begin to compete in a globalised labour market.

Meanwhile, in places like Sydney, their communities are benefitting from this influx of talented Indian doctors and nurses. The wealthy nations maintain and improve their levels of healthcare, often at the expense of nations that desperately need more healthcare of a higher standard. This is an example of market forces not taking care of things. Health as an industry is not served well by a purely free market economy, there needs to be government intervention in health if a nation’s people are to be properly looked after. Whether restrictions on Indian doctors needing to complete a decade of national service in local hospitals should be instigated is, perhaps, a question worth discussing.

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