Performing Yoga in a novel location

Performing Yoga in a novel location
(00:51) Rough Cut Reuters Video

Jun. 20 - An Indian practitioner of Yoga in India has mastered the art of performing various Yogic postures while floating in water.

Spreading Consumerism, One Indian Village at a Time

Spreading Consumerism, One Indian Village at a Time
6/9/2009

(Source Wall Street Journal)
Global advertising agencies now have armies of salesmen in India to promote products by staging dances, skits, music, demonstrations and game shows in village squares and country markets. Eric Bellman reports from India.

India's sex workers learn karate

India's sex workers learn karate
(01:34) Report Reuters Video

Jun 10 - Sex workers in India's Chennai city are learning karate in an attempt to protect themselves from violent customers.
Sonia Legg reports.

The lauch of The Nano

"Peoples' car" Nano launched
(00:54) Rough Cut Reuters Video

Mar. 23 - India's Tata Motors fulfills its promise to launch the ultra low-cost Nano car ahead of schedule, under difficult circumstances.
The launch of the world's cheapest car could dramatically change the auto market in the world's second most populous nation.
The Nano debuted in January 2008 and was expected to be on sale late last year, but its arrival was delayed by a dispute over the land where a purpose-built facility was to be located.

Soundbite:
TATA MOTORS CHAIRMAN RATAN TATA (English)

Fashion models tighten their belts, due to downturn

A model presents this creation by Palestinian designer Hindi Mahdi inside the Saint-Merri Church in Paris as part of his Spring-Summer Haute Couture 2009 fashion collection in this recent photo from January 28, 2009.

"Half-price" models tighten their belts

PARIS (Reuters) - Free designer dresses, an army of admirers and $15,000 to stroll down a catwalk: no wonder thousands of teenage girls aspire to being a top model.
But at the haute couture shows in Paris, the leggy blondes in silk dresses who advertise a life of luxury are finding their world turned inside out by the economic crisis.
"Half price! It's half-price everywhere, in Milan, even in New York," cried Anna Chyzh, a 23-year-old from Kiev who had just changed out of a Stephane Rolland haute couture gown into jeans and was headed to the next show
Like many models from Ukraine, Russia and the Balkans, Chyzh regularly sends money home to support her mother, a freelance interior designer who is having trouble finding work because of the downturn.

At Premier Model Management in London, an agency that has represented Claudia Schiffer, clients who used to pay a daily rate of 3,000 pounds ($4,200) are now arriving with a budget of 1,500 pounds, director Aidan Jean-Marie told Reuters. Read the article...


Indian fashion inspired by Mercedes
(02:13) Rough Cut (Video)

Feb 2 - A fashion show in India's entertainment capital Mumbai showcasing a collection inspired by the characteristics of Mercedes Benz draws a huge crowd.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) GAYATRI KHANNA, DESIGNER: "It is a collection for Mercedes Benz, the design and the characteristics it stands for like luxury, strength, power, style and high definition and quality and using all those characteristics we have designed our collection."

Electric car tours India (Video)

Electric car tours India
(01:41) Report Video Reuters

Jan 7 - India's first electric car leads a car rally around the country to raise awareness about climate change.
The electric model is designed by REVA Electric Car Company and powered by the latest in Lithium-ion technology.
Built of lightweight steel and plastic it can be fully charge in seven hours by plugging into a 15amp socket.