Tag: R. Viswanathan

• Saturday, November 2nd 2013 - 15:41 UTC

  “From the ”Labyrinth of Solitude“ to a ”Network of Partnerships”, the new story of Mexico

  

  By R. Viswanathan (*) Octavio Paz, the celebrated Mexican writer who was Ambassador to India in the sixties, wrote in his book “The Labyrinth of Solitude“ that the ”Mexican is always remote from the world and other people”. This was his conclusion after an in-depth analysis of the character and identity of the Mexicans who have inherited a mix of Aztec and Mayan Indian traditions and European culture and have been influenced overwhelmingly by the culture of US.

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 21:04 UTC

  A sugar rush that could fuel the economy

  

  By R. Viswanathan (*) - India should take its cue from Brazil and invest in ethanol as a viable commercial substitute for costly petrol.

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 02:18 UTC

  India, seventh market for Brazilian exports; bilateral trade reaches 10.6bn dollars in 2012

  

  By R. Viswanathan - India's trade with Brazil reached 10.6 billion dollars in 2012 (January to December), increasing by 15% from 9.2bn in 2011. Twenty years back, in 1992 bilateral trade was just 177 million dollars. Ten years back, in 2002, it was 1.2 billion dollars.
  India's exports to Brazil declined in 2012 to 5.04bn from 6bn dollars in 2011.