Oberoi Bangalore

... Then after dinner Kelly and I had the driver take us to Taika, but the police had already closed it down. (No dancing in Bangalore, and all businesses must close at 11:30 PM!) So we ended up finding a little restaurant/hotel two places down called the ...

... . We actually saw blue sky!  There were also a lot of trees lining the streets on the way to the Taj Residency hotel. Bangalore is certainly the prettier city. After lunch at the hotel we walked to the "shopping" area.  I have yet to find ...

... ready in record time here to go to work. While I've been looking into a weekend trip - so many of the weekend trips out of Bangalore are 6 hour drives or more - and that implies having to stay at a hotel at minimum. Part of me wants to see Pondicherry - ...

... a fine highway with no shanty towns! My concerns about arriving alone after midnight were unfounded and I had a great night's sleep. Bangalore has 8 million people, but unlike other cities I have visitied there does not seem to be much of a downtown ...

Thursday was a travel and business day, and I didn't take any photos. I stayed at the Bangalore Avanta by Taj, which was very nice, but the traffic woke me up this morning before I wanted to be. The Oberoi was next door, where my colleagues were staying, ...

We've had the last few days off to conduct case studies of urban issues around the city of Bangalore.  My group of 6 chose to focus on the tragedy of commons here in the city, specifically the privatization of lakes (or tanks as they are known here ...

... often because of the new year time. They want food or money donations. In the afternoon, everyone went for a buffet lunch at the Oberoi hotel. Before we got in, some security people screened all our bags with a big scanner! Then, we went for our 5 ...

... trendy or fancy. Tomorrow morning I'll check out of here and head to the airport to catch my Jet Airways flight to Bangalore. I'll spend all day Monday at Wipro--one of India's biggest success stories in the IT and engineering realm. They employ more ...