Ludhiana

So small scale manufacturing exporters, 10, 15, 20, 25 crore turnover, they are doing really well.

We have met these people in Ludhiana, we have met them in Surat, we have met them in Coimbatore, we have met them in Pune.

So Pune is a good city to visualize this.

Pune has two parts folks.

His mother's name was improbably Pamela, which was short for Padma Griha Kurana.

Pamela was raised in a small village outside Ludhiana, and Pamela was a housewife, though she told everyone she was an artist.

At first she told them she was a dancer, even though she had not pursued this career in any serious way.

She just liked the way it sounded, and she liked, at late-night dinner parties, to perform for other couples, moving chastely to the latest item number or to old love ballads by the great Bollywood singers of the 60s.

We wished to find out whether any money had arrived in our name that day.

Accordingly, we received a letter stating that someone had sent 50 rupees from Ludhiana, and most probably that money reached us that very day or the following day.

Upon hearing a prominent man's view that the Muslim belief that difficulties can be resolved through prayer makes them very weak, that is, that the belief that prayer is a means of resolving difficulties prevents them from taking practical action, and that there are people who turn only to prayer and do not make use of the means available to them, thereby becoming weak, he stated, 'He who denies prayer denies God.

Prayer alone is a means of attaining the recognition of God, and the time has now come when His authority must be acknowledged willingly or unwillingly.

Shah Suja at length escaped from Lahore.

After further misfortunes, he at length reached the British frontier station of Ludhiana, and in 1816 became a pensioner of the East India Company.

After the downfall of Shah Suja, Afghanistan, for many years, was a prey to anarchy.

At length, in 1826, Dost Mohammad succeeded in making himself supreme at Kabul, and this masterful man thenceforward held sway until his death in 1863, uninterruptedly, save during the three years of the British occupation.

and a streak of genuine chivalry.

Notwithstanding the death spite he suffered at our hands, he had a real regard for the English, and his loyalty to us was broken only by his armed support of the Sikhs in the Second Punjab War.

The fallen Shah Suja, from his asylum in Ludhiana, was continually intriguing for his restoration.

His schemes were long inoperative, and it was not until 1832 that certain arrangements were entered into between him and the Maharaja Runjit Singh.

Now, to be fair, plenty is being built.

Husha Yarns in Ludhiana recycles 12,000 tons a year for Adidas, Nike and Puma.

Arvind runs closed-loop denim.

Hasirudala, Sahas Zero Waste, Green Worms and ReCircle are putting together the collection and sorting layer that barely existed five years ago.

Three weeks ago, India's multi-billion dollar PM Gati Shakti project, which is similar to the national multimodal freight grids in the United States, Europe, and China, got a shot in the arm with the western dedicated freight corridor coming into full operation.

With this, India has completed a two thousand eight hundred and forty-three kilometer dedicated freight rail backbone going from Dadri to JNPT, and then the eastern corridor from Ludhiana to Son Nagar.

So the western corridor connects the northern manufacturing and consumption belt with a key container gateway, that's the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust just outside Mumbai.

One key feature of this corridor is its ability to run longer, heavier, and double-stack container trains, which substantially increases freight productivity.

So again, I've gone the second time to India.

We've gone on a train from Ludhiana to Benares, which is about a 40 hour journey.

My

God.

These constraints show up in actual investment decisions.

So in March, Tata Steel opened a scrap-based electric furnace in Ludhiana with capacity to produce 0.75 million tons of steel a year.

It uses recycled steel to make construction rebars.

Now, the company is also expanding through a much larger coal-based project.

Another said he had himself to pay five rupees before he could get his ticket and his seat.

These three men were bound for Ludhiana and had still more nights of travel in store for them.

What I have described is not exceptional, but normal.

I have got down at Raichur, Dond, Sonpur, Chakratapur, Prulia, Asansol, and other junction stations, and been at the Musarfikanas attached to these stations.

Why do they sit in Bangalore for eight, nine months? Nobody knows that.

Which national team in this, in this world, in, in today's world where, you know, everybody needs higher grades of competition to be able to perform on the weekends, how many of those, how many of those teams are like India who sit in Bangalore for eight, nine months? I think it's one, one of those most disastrous policies that has not only undermined the team's performance over the years, but it has also killed domestic hockey from Chandigarh to Ludhiana to Jalandhar to Amritsar to New Delhi to Lucknow to Kolkata to Hyderabad to Chennai to Bangalore to Bombay to Pune.

Hockey has been systematically dismantled from the time Mr. KPS Gill become I- became IHF president to even now.

It's a very simple process.