Send Gifts across India from Singapore

Indians in Singapore has started their living in this piece of foreign land from around the first half of the nineteenth century following the British invention and setting up of colonies there. Singapore is one of the few cities which single handedly worked as home to a huge numbers of Indians. The oldest of the Indians in Singapore living in the country are however, descendents of the soldiers and missionaries sent there by the British during colonization. There were mostly young Indian males comprising the initial immigrated population in Singapore who came for blue collared jobs, to serve as soldiers or convicts. But by the middle of the twentieth century, a balanced population in terms of ratio of genders of the Indians in Singapore emerged. They lived and left a very deep impact on the Malay culture of Singapore. Soon they started controlling the elite section of the population and the educated section too. Their monthly income showed to be clearly high than their Malay or Chinese counterparts. It is because a more recent influx of Indian well educated job seekers in the Singaporean job market in various spheres, but specifically in the IT and ITES industries. Even large numbers of students from India joined this influx. The population here of the Indians in Singapore however consists primarily of the Hindus and more importantly the Tamil Hindus. And for the last two hundred years their practicing of their Hindu or Indian culture there in the foreign lands of Singapore, celebrating festivals and many social milieu has made the other Singaporeans well versed with the country of India. By the 1990s, this cultural endurance had grown quite noticeably and distinctly from the regular South Asian or Malay cultures. Gradually the new immigrants poured in from India and Indians in Singapore have put forth their very own distinct Indian culture in the midst of other cultures and upheld that with pride. It is said, that the low cost carriers, the local cable television channels and the Internet now together connecting the local Indian community of Singapore among them and with the people back their home in India.

Indians in Singapore believes in Indian tradition and culture and sending gifts to India from Singapore in this connection is a regular practice. On every Indian festivals, Indians, either working or studying or permanently living in the land of Singapore take up the auspicious opportunity of religious or social Indian festivals and rush to send gifts back home to give the message of emotion and sentiments of Indian hearts and let their relatives know how they still remember them and hence a message of bondage get spread across the international boundaries. The elite mercantile class of Sindhi, Gujarati, Parsi and Tamil people practice sending gifts over Internet regularly which has got a wide range of gifting items. There is a full fledged gift association here in Singapore to control the gifting practices all over the country. To add to that, the gift sending companies over Internet are professional bodies which take care of their clients’ sentiments while choosing and sending gifts making the practice of sending gifts to India from Singapore a more and more popular practice.