The Chancery Pavillion Bangalore

... ve seen since being here. The city is referred to as the “U.S.’s back office” because of the number of technological call centers here. Many computer and software companies from the UK and the States outsource their call centers here. If you’re talking to someone from India they are most likely in Bangalore. Over the past years the city has experienced a pretty mild climate change. This ...

... she gets sick of them and currently she is not slowing down. We had amazing paneer and dosas there too.

9. City Market (KR Market): very interesting place. It is a full Indian market and due to the rains and garbage piles, not the best smelling. We went there in search of spices and vegetables and there were vendors from all over just sitting there selling fruits. Some of the kids were fascinated with Sara and even ran up and waved and shaked her hand ...

... in the south, others in the north.

He may be the remover of obstacles but Ganesh is also known to place them in the path of those who need to be checked. He’s also an attractive god, shown in a multitude of poses and scenes of daily life. He’s flexible and easy going, attended by a rat, and armed as well with an axe, hook, lasso and lutus flower. And he has an elephant head on his shoulders, the result of an angry father, Shiva, beheading his ...

... position, and someday she will take pride of place beside the charpoys.

A few days later I was at a Durga pandal in the central neighbourhood of Ulsoor. I had been invited by Swagata Gupta, a young Kolkata-born journalist based in Bangalore. Swagata and her family celebrated the primarily-Bengali festival, and her mother was in town from Kolkata and giggled when I touched her feet in the formal Indian greeting of respected elders.

The two ...

... Plaza bright yellow and red flower petals have been sprinkled into patterns, broad green banana leaf fronds are tied to doorframes and savoury melons are smashed open to bring luck and prosperity. It’s a busy time for the city’s pandits, Hindu priests who conduct puja blessings in their best robes or shirtless and barefoot, incanting, burning incense and smearing three fingers of cumin or kum-kum spice paste on the sides of cars and two ...

... shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva, adding a religious touch to the place. As there was nothing else to see we started our climb back to the top. It was 10:45 am and saw many visitors coming down by then. We took snacks in the car and started our journey back. Even though we had planned to take Bannerghatta road, we missed the turn and took the same route. On the way we saw a Meditation center and stopped there for some time to explore ...

... and singing and blessing one another. At the end all of the women gave each other ceremonial baskets filled with fruits and rice and gifts as offerings. It was really cool to see and the women (our host mother, her mother-in-law, neighbor and several other women) were all dressed beautifully in silk saris. This weekend we've all been invited to the henna ceremony of a wedding and they've promised to dress us in traditional Indian clothing - I can't wait!

... There were over 1900 pre-registered candidates scheduled to attend. And the UC Irvine table just happened to be the first table once those main doors were open. I didn't stop talking (shouting would be more like it) for three hours. It was an incredible rush, I think I was working off of pure adreneline, otherwise I probably would have lost my voice after the first hour. The candidates were much more qualified than those in Delhi, and many of them ...

... than playing music and using the internet and those who already have programming experience. I literally have had 7 days of programming lessons, and am already expected to know an entire programming language inside and out, most college courses take a semester to teach this amount. And the Indian education system just does not mesh with the way most of us are used to being taught. It's four hours of lecture, which pretty much entails the professor reading ...