Indian Week: Met in Bangalore, reunited in Rome
This week is randomly particular (and fun) because my best friend in Bangalore visited me in Rome and we were around together with his girlfriend and my ex-roommate from India who now works here as well. On Thursday I have another friend from Paris, who I met in Bangalore as well, coming to spend some […]
Bank Holidays and Supermarkets
When I first arrived to Milan in 2009 I went out on a Sunday to buy some groceries, I walked a few hundred meters down the neighborhood just to find out that bars, supermarkets, pharmacies, and everything else was closed. I wondered that since I didn’t had a TV I must have missed the news […]
Phone Carriers Will Become Banks
I was recently thinking at this whole “consumerism” thing from the perspective of how easy it can get for people to buy stuff. Whereas one can carry an x amount of money in their pocket, let’s call it immediate disposable income, the dilemma for banks is obviously how much credit they can give to each […]
Differences in safety in Bangalore vs Monterrey, México
I think one of the things I have wrongly taken for granted the most in India is its safety, at least in Bangalore where I have spent the last year. As a foreigner, I can say I feel way safer in Bangalore than in Monterrey. It must be said that the same doesn’t apply in […]
Landing Planes
It is interesting to observe how people behave in planes, especially when you land. I hate totally dislike when people stand when the seatbelt light is still on. We might think some things are absurd, but if we chose to travel by air we should stick to their rules. And yes, I know, I´m no […]
Gender Nonsense: A view on India’s sex ratio disparity
The figures from the last census in India point to an imbalanced sex ratio that in this country there were 109 males for every 100 females under the age of six, up from 107 in 2001… and increasing. The imbalanced sex ratio in India calls my attention because having a male son is very important […]
Airtel Broadband Service in India: A Love & Funny Story
It took five weeks for Airtel, the supposedly most reliable mobile and broadband service company in India, to connect Internet in my house when I moved there last year. The day Airtel finally came (on a Friday around 9:30 PM), there were five technicians in my living room… one was holding the computer, one was […]
The Indian Dream: GDP & Economic Growth
“All men are created equal… endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights… including Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…” These are the ideas behind the Declaration of Independence of the USA and the hope of development and prosperity. Since I have been living in India my view of the world has changed dramatically […]