Indian Medical equipment manufacturers showcase their products in MEDICALL 2008

A three-day medical equipment exhibition titled 'MEDICALL 2008' at Chennai was inaugurated by Tamilnadu State Health Minister Mr M R K Paneerselvam on 1st August 2008. Around 200 exhibitors have displayed their products. Dr S Manivannan, CEO, Medicall has been organising this for the past three years with the intention of bringing together all the Indian medical equipment manufacturers and the medical professionals under one roof. This exhibition is also integrated with seminars on different themes to update the medical professonals with the latest developments in the health care industry. This is the largest such exhibition in India.

Presently, it is estimated that around 65 to 70 percent of the medical equipments are imported from various countries. Medical equipment industry is growing at 15% annually from the 10,000 crores at 2006 level to 22,000 crores in 2012. As the Minister said during the inauguration, Indian medical equipments are highly cost effective and qualitative.

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International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)

June 2008 issue of our ezine features International Associatin of Business Communicators, who functions in more than 70 countries through 100 plus chapters. Mr Todd Hattori, Chair 2007-08 is the Guest Editor of this issue. You may download the ezine in pf format (410 k) from the following link

http://www.primepointfoundation.org/presense/presense0608.pdf

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Podcast of Todd Hattori, Chair 2007-08 - Edition 36

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Podcast of Ms Julie Freeman, President, IABC - Edition 37

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Do Non Resident Indians involve in Nation building?

PodUniversal - Edition 39

In the recent years, lot of educated youngsters migrate to United States and Europe for better prospects. There are two type of Non Resident Indians (1) people who are living there even prior to 1991 and (2) people who migrate to foreign countries post 1991.

During 1990 when India was facing acute financial and political crisis, during Prime Minister Chandrasekar's period, gold reserve was pledged to meet the day to day balance of payment. At that time, fearing collapse of Indian economy, many Non Resident Indians repatriated their investments from the Indian Banks to their living country. At that time, it added further financial strain and crisis to India. Rajiv Gandhi assassination lead to further political crisis. During 1991, Narasimha Rao took over as Prime Minister and with the help of Dr Manmohan Singh (then Finance Minister and present Prime Minister) liberated the Indian economy.

Economic liberalisation opened up our economy and lot of opportunities. Indian economy started booming. Lot of educated youngsters started moving to US and Europe for better prospects. Now the young Indians have started building up the Image of the country across the globe. What was considered by developed countries as the 'land of snake charmers and beggars' is now being seen as 'technology savvy country'.

In this background, few questions arise in our mind: (1) What is the attitude of NRIs towards the development of India (2) How far, they will raise to the occasion, if another crisis is faced by India (3) What is the role of NRIs in developing the Nation.

With these questions, we approached Mr Sudarshan Venkatraman, Chairman of Zylog Systems Limited, an Indian Multinational Company for his views. He has been operating the business in many countries. He belongs to the 'post 1991 group of NRI'. He has been taking active interest silently in various social welfare activities, particularly towards education of dalit and downtrodden children. You can listen to his views by clicking to play (13 minutes)


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Unsung Heroes - Young Helping Minds

PodUniversal - Edition 35

Many times, the elders blame the younger generation including students for their behaviour and changes they bring about. But seldom we recognise them for their silent contribution to the society.

Nagappan, Sathiyan and a dozen young students used to celebrate their birth day parties in hotels and enjoy the dinner. Suddenly four years back, Nagappan and his friends decided not to spend lavishly the money for their birthdays in the hotels and instead pool the money to help poor students. A physically disabled junior student hailing from a very poor family was the first beneficiary of their gesture. They paid his college fees.

The smile on the face of the poor disabled boy motivated Nagappan and others to mobilise more number of students, who can contribute around 20 to 25 rupees every month. All the amount so collected were pooled for supporting more such poor and disabled students for their education., by way of fees, books, etc.

The encouragement given by the fellow students made Nagappan and Sathiyan to form a trust in the name of 'Young Helping Minds' and they registered the trust deed with authorities and also with Income Tax Department. They have around 250 students / young people contributing their small share towards the noble cause of educating the poor and disabled children. Presently, they support 35 such students for their education.

Inspired by Dr Abdul Kalam, Nagappan also changed his name as 'Kalam' Nagappan. They want to increase the contributors to 1000 and to increase the beneficiaries to 100 by 2010. Nagappan, Sathiyan, Poornima and Ponmudi, the trustees of this Young Helping Minds met me last Sunday.

I asked them : "Now you are all students. You are happily involving yourself in the social activities. Some of you have completed and now working in companies. What would happen if you all get married and enter the family life?" Without hesitation or even blinking of the eye, they responded together, "We will look only for like minded partners".

When they sought an appointment with me to meet, I was happy that i was going to motivate them further. Finally, after having had three hours of discussion, I ended up in getting myself motivated by these young boys and girls. I saw them off from my office with all hope that India's future is in the safe hands.

They can be contacted at younghelpingminds@yahoo.co.in
Their website www.younghelpingminds.org

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Higher education in European Universities - Useful tips to aspiring students

PodUniversal - Edition 31

Presently, many students aspire to get educated in European Universities. In an exclusive interview with K. Srinivasan, Editor of PodUniversal, Mr Mark Bickerton, Director, Student recruitment and International Relations of London Metropoliton University, London speaks about the various aspects of higher education in UK and other European Universities.

London Metro is the single largest University in London and third largest in UK. Around 35,000 students are studying in the University. Of this, around 7000 students are from nearly 150 countries.

Mr Mark is a well known academician and is associated with the University for more than two decades.

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Exclusive interview with Mr Colin Farrington, Director General, CIPR, London

Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), London is one of the oldest Institutions in the PR field. They are celebrating their 60th Anniversary this year. To coincide with their 60th Anniversary, they are hosting '5th World PR Conference' at London during June 2008.

March 2008 issue of PR-e-Sense focusses on CIPR. Mr Colin Farrington, Director General of CIPR is the Guest Editor of this ezine. We carry an exclusive Podcast interview also with Mr Colin.

March issue of ezine may be downloaded from this link (350 k in pdf file)
http://www.primepointfoundation.org/presense/presense0308.pdf

PodUniversal - Edition 30

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Exclusive interviews with Dr Abdul Kalam and Dr Y S Rajan, duo of India Vision 2020

This ezine completes two years and enters third year successfully. Feb 2008 issue is the Special Second Anniversary Issue. This issue is unique in its own way.

If all the Indians chant with pride the 'Vision 2020' mantra, the entire credit goes to the duo Dr Abdul Kalam and Dr Y S Rajan, who authored the book India 2020 together. This edition is Guest Edited by Dr Y S Rajan and we carry the exclusive interviews from Dr Kalam and Dr Rajan.

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http://www.primepointfoundation.org/presense/presense0208.pdf

PodUniversal - Edition 28 - Podcast interview of Dr Kalam

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PodUniversal Edition 29 - Podcast interview of Dr Y S Rajan

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ABCI celebrates Golden Jubilee

Association of Business Communicators of India (ABCI) is the first organisation in India to be set up for professional communicators established in the year 1957. Their Golden Jubilee coinced with the 47th Annual Awards Nite held on 11th Jan 2008 at Mumbai. ABCI's Awards are considered as "Oscars of Business Communication". PodUniversal brings out two special podcast features on ABCI.

These podcasts are part of the lead stories published in Jan 2008 issue Corporate ezine PR-e-Sense, published by Prime Point Foundation. All the back issues of PR-e-Sense can be downloaded from http://www.corportezine.in/.

Jan 2008 issue of PR-e-Sense may be downloaded from the following link (280 k in pdf)
http://www.primepointfoundation.org/presense/presense0108.pdf

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PodUniversal Edition 26 - ABCI - Specail feature - Part I

In this podcast, we have brought out exclusive interviews with Mr Yogesh Joshi (President of ABCI), Ms K Bhavani (Director of Communication of Singapore Govt and Global Communicator Award winner from ABCI) and Mr G P C Nayar (Chairman SCMS Group of Educational Institutions and Life Time Achievement Award winner from ABCI)

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PodUniversal Edition 27 - ABCI - Specail feature - Part II

In this podcast, we have brought out an exclusive interview with Mr K S Neelakantan, a doyen in the PR and Communication industry. He has received many awards, including that of 'Life Time Achievement Award' from ABCI

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Documentary film on Dr Abdul Kalam - A worthy gift to the Nation

PodUniversal Edition 25

Last week, a documentary on Dr Abdul Kalam was released at Chennai. The documentary has been produced and Directed by Mr P Dhanapal, CEO, Minveli Media Works. Mr Dhanapal is a great admirer of Dr Kalam. His mission is to spread the message of Dr Kalam across the Nation amongst the youth. As a single person, he devoted more than 30 months in the production of this documentary by collecting various information, materials on Dr Kalam. He was taking the guidance of Dr Y S Rajan (co-author of the book India 2020) and Mr Ponraj (presently Advisor to Dr Kalam) for the authenticity of the information.

The 60 minutes English documentary film was released at Chennai last week by Mr K. Balachandar, doyen of Indian film Industry, in the presence of Dr Kalam. I have seen the documentary fully. I donot find words to appreciate the enormous work that has gone behind this production. This is a 'story in story' type. A grand father tells his grand son about the greatness of Dr Kalam. In the process, speeches of Dr Kalam at various places, including that of European Union have been included. Right from the childhood of Dr Kalam at Rameswaram till his Rashtrapathi Bhavan days are visualised in an interesting manner. At the end, you don't feel that you have spent one hour on this.

Mr Dhanapal has given this New Year gift to the Nation. Inorder to ensure that Dr Kalam's message spreads acorss the Nation, he has priced this VCD, so low at Rs.50/-. This VCD can be used as 'gift' to youth during any memorable occassions. This can be screened in the Schools and colleges.

If you want to get the CD, please contact Mr Dhanapal

Mr Dhanapal can be contacted at pdhanapal@yahoo.com or can be contacted at 09282235990

We have taken an exclusive interview (9 minutes 40 sec) with him. Please listen to his interview by clicking to play. Please also watch the trailer of the documentary given below.

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Right to Information Act

PodUniversal - Edition 24

Mr A K Venkatasubramanian IAS (Retd), Former Secretary to Govt. India, in an exclusive podcast interview talks about the various aspects of Right to Information Act. He also speaks about the various benefits the general public can derive by extensive and intelligent use of this RTI Act.

Mr Venkatasubramanian is a well known Citizien Activist. He runs more than 200 Citizen centres in Tamilnadu.

This interview is part of the lead story of December 07 issue of Corporate ezine PR-e-Sense. The December 07 isue of PR-e-Sense may be downloaded from the following link (248 k in pdf format)

http://www.primepointfoundation.org/presense/presense1207.pdf
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http://www.corporatezine.in

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Corporate arrogance and human insensitivity

PodUniversal - Edition 23

In an exclusive podcast interview, Mr T S Krishna Murthy, Former Chief Election Commissioner of India speaks about the various corporate arrogances and human insensitive activities practised by Corporate executives. He also suggests various measures to improve the human aspect in the day to day functioning of the Corporates.

This podcast interview is part of the lead story of Corporate ezine PR-e-Sense November 2007 issue, published by Prime Point Foundation. (Download 224 k in pdf format)

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Violence to Non-Violence : Story of an extremist turned social worker

Edition 21 and 22 - PodUniversal - An Unsung Hero

From 2007 onwards, United Nations has declared that Mahatma Gandhi's birthday i.e. 2nd October every year will be observed as "International Non violence Day" globally. Mahatma Gandhi was leading the freedom movement few decades back against the mighty British Empire and succeeded in his mission. In these days, when violence, extremism, terrorism are on the increase, the concept of 'Non Violence" assumes greater significance. Violence has no place in the development of the society.

To mark this occasion, we present to you a real time case study of Mr Periaswamy of Tamilnadu. Mr Periaswamy right from his boyhood, got engaged himself in extremism. He was arrested and sentenced to death by the Court. He was relieved by the High Court later. During his five years of imprisonment, Mr Periaswamy realised that 'violence' had no place in the development of dalits and downtrodden. A totally changed person, Mr Periaswamy, has now organised 63 night schools in 63 hamlets in two districts and started providing education to dalit and downtrodden children. (see pic. on right)

Besides, he is also conducting tailoring sessions to benefit the young ladies and girls in these localities. (see pic. on left)

Mr Periaswamy may be contacted at nandanartrust@gmail.com

His silent revolution is now benefitting nearly 4000 children of his locality. In an exclusive interview with K. Srinivasan, Editor of PodUniversal, he explains in detail about his transformation.

Interview with English translation:

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Public Relations 2.0 - Engaging stakeholders in the new media landscape

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Edition 20 - PodUniversal and August 07 issue of PR-e-Sense - PR 2.0 and New Media

Institute of Public Relations of Singapore (IPRS) organised a one day conference on Public Relations 2.0 inviting various experts. Probably this is the first time, a conference is being held on this theme.

August 2007 issue of Corporate ezine PR-e-Sense carries briefly the proceedings of this conference. Ms K Bhavani, President, IPRS is the Guest Editor of this edition.

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A bird's eye view of India's 123 agreement with United States

Edition 19 - PodUniversal - 123 Agreement

Indian Government's 123 agreement with United States has generated a heated debate in India amongst politicians, media and general public. Many people are not aware of the background and the implications of the agreement.

In an exclusive podcast interview, Mr T S R Subramanian, Former Cabinet Secretary to Indian Government speaks about this agreement and the various issues involved.

Mr Subramanian held the highest position in Indian Government amongst the Administrative Service Officers. He has played a greater role in the economic liberalisation, infrastructure reforms like Telecom, Power, Surface Transport, etc.

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Indian Media should represent the billion people of the country - Dr Kalam

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Edition 18 - Exclusive interview with Dr Abdul Kalam - Part Three

When India is celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of her freedom, we are presenting three part exclusive podcast interview with former Indian President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. The first two parts have already been published in these columns. If you want to listen to them, please click:

Part one - Challenges before the Nation and the role of youth in facing these challenges
Part two - Exclusive Independence Day message to children

We are now presenting the Part Three of Dr Kalam's interview. In this podcast, Dr Kalam shares his views and suggestions to Indian Media to become the partner in Nation building. He wants the Indian media to become 'the media for billion'.

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India 60 - Second part of interview with Dr Abdul Kalam

Edition 17- Exclusive interview with Dr Abdul Kalam - Part Two

On 15th Agusut 2007, we released the first part of the exclusive interview with Dr Abdul Kalam, former Indian President. We are happy to release the second part of the interview .

In this second part, Dr Kalam gives his Independence Day message to children. Though, it is meant for children, it is more applicable to school and college going students.

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India at 60 - An exclusive interview with Dr Abdul Kalam - Part one

PodUniversal - Edition 16
Top Ten challenges and role of youth

India celebrates 60th Anniversary of freedom on 15th August 2007. In an exclusive telephonic interview to PodUniversal , Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, former President of India shares his views on the 'Top ten challenges' of the Nation. He also shares his views as to how youth can overcome these challenges to realise the vision of developed India by 2020.

We will be publishing his other views in the coming weeks.

Please also visit http://www.indiavision2020.org and join the India's largest India Vision group

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Nation salutes Indian President Dr Abdul Kalam

PodUniversal Edition 15 - July 2007


After a glorious five years of tenure as President of India, Dr Abdul Kalam hands over charge to the new President and leaves Rashtrapathi Bhavan on 25th July 2007. During his tenure as President of India, he proved himself as "People's President" and he made the President's Palace (Rashtrapathi Bhavan) as "People's Bhavan". He was not worried about the protocol and ceremonial positions. He was meeting thousands of children and common man.

In an exclusive chat with me on the eve of Dr Kalam's retirement from Office, Prof. Y S Rajan, co-author of the book India 2020 with Dr Kalam and his close associate speaks about the achievements of Dr Kalam during his tenure. He also speaks about the future plans of Dr Kalam. (This conversation was recorded over phone). Please listen to the conversation.

A perspective on education in United States - Few tips to aspiring students

PodUniversal Edition 14 - July 2007

During the last week of June 2007, Prime Point Foundation and Stenographers' Guild jointly organised an interaction session at Chennai for students with Prof. Sreenath Sreenivasan, Dean of Students, Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism, USA.

During this interaction session, Prof. Sreenath Sreenivasan explained the various levels of education in USA, eligibility conditions, Admission procedures, cost aspects, future prospects and common mistakes committed by the students during application stage, etc. He has also provided various useful weblinks which may be of help to the students. Extract of his discussion is reproduced in this podshow for the benefit of global students.

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Corporate Podcast - An exciting branding and marketing communication tool

PodUniversal Edition 13

Corporate Podcasts are emerging as exciting and revolutionary alternate medium and is sweeping across the globe. Many of the Corporates in US, UK and other European countries have started using podcasts for promoting their brand image and positioning their pdocuts and services.

In the developing countries like India, there is lack of awareness amongst the corporates on this new medium. Public Relations Agencies and Advertisement Agencies need to relook into their strategies and effectively use 'Corporate Podcasts' for their clients. Corporate Podcasts will function as 'formidable ally' to the other channels.

June 2007 issue of Corporate ezine PR-e-Sense deals with the theme 'Corporate Podcast'. Mr Sunil Nair (CEO, Nautanki TV), Mr Syed Nazir Razik (Technocrat) and Ms Chinmayee (a well known Radio and Television Jockey and film playback singer) have given their views on Podcasts. This ezine is also integrated with a podcast in audio form.

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