{"id":5842,"date":"2007-03-09T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2007-03-09T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T05:24:00","slug":"why-liz-hurley-is-good-for-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/why-liz-hurley-is-good-for-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Liz Hurley is good for India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the economy benefits from her marriage to Arun Nayar. <i>Times of India<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Wedding_fetches_Rs_1_cr_for_hospitality_sector\/articleshow\/1738605.cms\" title=\"Nayar-Hurley wedding boosts Indian economy\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The hospitality sector estimates that the Jodhpur wedding [between Nayar and Hurley] should cost about Rs 1 crore.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m assuming that with so many foreign guests coming down, and some of them perhaps being tempted to return later, the indirect benefits of the wedding will be even greater than that. And much of the money spent may not have been spent within India if not for Liz Hurley. Thus, however much we may envy the rich their ability so spend so ostentatiously, we should actually encourage them to do more of this, because it ends up creating jobs for people at the bottom of the ladder throughout the hospitality industry.<\/p>\n<p><b>Also read<\/b>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/lavish-weddings-are-good-for-economy.html\" title=\"Lavish weddings are good for the economy - Amit Varma\">Lavish weddings are good for the economy<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the economy benefits from her marriage to Arun Nayar. <i>Times of India<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Wedding_fetches_Rs_1_cr_for_hospitality_sector\/articleshow\/1738605.cms\" title=\"Nayar-Hurley wedding boosts Indian economy\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The hospitality sector estimates that the Jodhpur wedding [between Nayar and Hurley] should cost about Rs 1 crore.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m assuming that with so many foreign guests coming down, and some of them perhaps being tempted to return later, the indirect benefits of the wedding will be even greater than that. And much of the money spent may not have been spent within India if not for Liz Hurley. Thus, however much we may envy the rich their ability so spend so ostentatiously, we should actually encourage them to do more of this, because it ends up creating jobs for people at the bottom of the ladder throughout the hospitality industry.<\/p>\n<p><b>Also read<\/b>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/lavish-weddings-are-good-for-economy.html\" title=\"Lavish weddings are good for the economy - Amit Varma\">Lavish weddings are good for the economy<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Liz Hurley is good for India - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/why-liz-hurley-is-good-for-india\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Liz Hurley is good for India - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Because the economy benefits from her marriage to Arun Nayar. 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