Observations on 60 hours in India
That 60 hour figure may be a bit off, since my body still isn't entirely sure what day it is.
1. I could never live in a large Indian city if they're anything like Bangalore. I had never before encountered air pollution you can see. My eyes and throat were bothering me from the moment I walked out of the hotel.
2. The food is indeed as spicy as advertised. I think I'm slowly getting used to it though. We had breakfast at Dr. Raju's house this morning, and while it didn't contain anything I might think of as breakfast, I could eat that dosa all day every day.
3. Indian drivers are certifiably insane.
Today we visited the training campus of Infosys, one of the biggest Indian tech companies. Young people (mostly men, as you might imagine) come here after being hired by Infosys to recieve additional training. They live here for 14 weeks, and it's basically a city within a city. I've never seen anything like it. They live in what look like nice hotel rooms, and have everything they need within the walls of the facility. If this is how Indian companies treat their engineers-in-training, I can see why there's getting to be so many of them.
It's about 3:30 PM right now. We're going to the Golf Club (get it?) for dinner tonight. Apparently the girls on the trip have to find something that covers their ankles for this dinner.
For anyone who's reading this that cares, I can't get on AIM because the internet connection here is a bit strange. I can't access a number of sites, like MLB.com, Facebook, my Conn email, and AIM. The tech guys should be back on Monday; hopefully they'll be able to fix it then.
1. I could never live in a large Indian city if they're anything like Bangalore. I had never before encountered air pollution you can see. My eyes and throat were bothering me from the moment I walked out of the hotel.
2. The food is indeed as spicy as advertised. I think I'm slowly getting used to it though. We had breakfast at Dr. Raju's house this morning, and while it didn't contain anything I might think of as breakfast, I could eat that dosa all day every day.
3. Indian drivers are certifiably insane.
Today we visited the training campus of Infosys, one of the biggest Indian tech companies. Young people (mostly men, as you might imagine) come here after being hired by Infosys to recieve additional training. They live here for 14 weeks, and it's basically a city within a city. I've never seen anything like it. They live in what look like nice hotel rooms, and have everything they need within the walls of the facility. If this is how Indian companies treat their engineers-in-training, I can see why there's getting to be so many of them.
It's about 3:30 PM right now. We're going to the Golf Club (get it?) for dinner tonight. Apparently the girls on the trip have to find something that covers their ankles for this dinner.
For anyone who's reading this that cares, I can't get on AIM because the internet connection here is a bit strange. I can't access a number of sites, like MLB.com, Facebook, my Conn email, and AIM. The tech guys should be back on Monday; hopefully they'll be able to fix it then.
posted by Jake | 3:01 AM
2 Comments:
I suspect the pollution you are encountering is similar to that you might see in China. What they share in common are very large traditionally indigent populations in a country with limited resources where they are working very hard to embrace a modern economy. I'm afraid concern for the environmnet is a luxury particularly when superimnposed on a tradition of casual neglect. While the IT industries are generaly non-polluting (at least to the air) the oil/oil products needed to fuel the people who work in those industries is inescable until respect for the environmnet is no longer optional...and a sense of panic sets it. I suspect that in a country like India it will be a while until this happens but we all have to start somewhere. I wonder how/if "An Inescapable Truth" would play in an ecucated town like Bangelore/Mysore?
Pop
Cover the ankles?????? how about socks. By the way you may not have MLB.com so youi shold know the yankees have won the first three of five and begin the fourth son. You may be the only one in India who cares!? P
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