Floriana concept marble is the first ever brand to introduce branded marble retailing in India

Imagine this. A well-constructed bungalow in a plush locality of Noida, furnished with varnished marbles bearing a diamond-like glow and complemented with paper plain walls, jeweled chandeliers and swanky masterpieces. Wow! What a perfect home. Looks like SVIL Mines Limited world’s largest Marble-processing unit sensed our desires and hence opened the first of its kind concept marble boutique in Noida, to make our dreams come true.

With a plan to launch 300 retail stores across India, Floriana concept marble brings to you pre-polished, calibrated, fit to size and ready to use natural marble first time in Noida at sector 49, Marble market. Natural marbles come in various distinct sizes and types to make our ambience look sophisticated or simple, warm or cool, elegant or rustic in the most natural way.

Those who were traveling to Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata Jalandhar and kanpur to buy Floriana marbles can now catch a dekko at their first Noida store. On the launch Mr. Sanjay Jain, Chairman Floriana Group said “We are really excited at the launch of Floriana Concept Marble retail store in Noida. It is a very fresh and innovative concept in India, Floriana Marble will be equivalent to the glaze of mirror and will be unmatched by any other marble brand for its quality, finish, product benefits and applications”, he further added “the Group has a plan to open 09 more stores in Uttar Pradesh in the cities like Lucknow, Merrut and Muradabad just to name a few and each store will offer a perfect ambience and purchase experience which includes concept display and advice from trained experts in architecture and interior design to assist customers makes the right choice and the support of providing trained masons to lay the marble”.

What Floriana has in store for us?

Floriana processes marble up to 3mm thin - by far the thinnest in the world. To add to the excitement, it offers whole new dimension in marble thickness - 5mm, 7mm and 10mm with the conventional 20mm. Florina concept marble now surprises us with-

Three different variant of product range; Big size marble slabs in size as big as 3×2 mtrs, marble in a tile format of 300×300mm, 450mm x 450mm and 600mm x 600mm.

And the very innovative product ‘Convinio’ for the first time in the country, which is thin natural marble combined with various other materials like glass, steel and aluminum honeycomb for various innovative applications.

Dream homes are made with fancy products, hence these innovative ones can be used for drawing a wall partition or for external and internal wall cladding, modular kitchen top, modular floating floor, elevator, false ceilings, furniture etc.

The Floriana marble, touted to offer a one-stop Marble solution to consumers, has become a must-visit on our chart. With so much baggage attached to the group and a heavy investment of Rs. 650 crore in this ambitious project, it would be interesting to note how does it fare on Noidaites scoreboard. Once you visit the premier store, leave a comment here on its range, prices and services.

Even though many of us lugged the message of Taare Zameen Par with tears and resolutions, some academics fans still inhabit a desire to make their students and children toppers and academicians. However, the vaulting ambitions of generation next do not take long to be realized, if they are fed with creativeness and ingenuity.

The exemplary success story of Isha Das, a class tenth student and also a noted Odissi dancer, pins down our typical belief and incites us to desire and dream. Already a star in Noida for her impeccable dance performances, Isha has a rich experience of 10 years in Odissi dance. At just 15, this little star has delivered over hundred performances at zonal and sub-zonal level.

Isha is an acolyte of Deb Prasad Das gharana. She is being trained by the most revered Odissi dancer, Jyoti Srivastava, also a director of Nehru Institute of Odissi Research and Training in Delhi. Isha bumped into this unconventional dance form on TV and hence got smitten by it so much that she finally resolved to pursue it. “When I was young I used to remain glued to television. Once I noticed an Odissi dancer and realized that I should also be like her and I started working on it. Soon I got a dance teacher close to my house and started learning,” says Isha.

Isha bagged the first prize at a Youth festival organized in 2007 and second prize in 2008-2009. At this tender age, she has registered success by winning numerous awards at MTNL Health mela, Nehru Bal Samiti (Gold medal), Arya Vidya Sabha. Her profile also boasts of various workshops, which she has attended with various renowned dancers like Ramli Abraham, Durga Charan Ranbir and Gangadhar Pradhan. A very well known face in Puttaparthi Satya Sai Ashram (near Bangalore) and Sadagat Ashram in Rishikesh for her talent, she has also performed at World Dance Day, International Yoga Festival, Trade Fair (Shakuntalam theatre).

For this talented girl world is her oyster, but that doesn’t keep her away from studies. She takes her classes seriously and also manages time to attend her practice sessions. In this hip-hop generation, choosing a cultural dance form, of course, makes her choice unconventional but she pursues it for her inner urge. “I know that Odissi is not a saleable item in Bollywood but I am still learning the dance because I want to do it for my inner urge. Dance is a respectable subject and it cannot be measured in monetary terms,” she says.

Currently enjoying the coveted state-level scholarship from CCRT (Centre for Culture and Research Training), Isha feels she wouldn’t have been able to make it without her parents’ support. Despite of coming from a non-dancers family, her parents have propped her lot, as she says,” my parents mother Aarti Das and father AK Das respect my feelings and supports me a lot. They always join me when I go on tour”.

Now, how does Isha manages her career would be an object of interest, meanwhile if you have a similar inspiring story or know somebody who can be a muse to several others, please write into us.