Bangalore: Thanks for the Memories
(EARLY Wednesday morning) Greetings from 31,000 feet over India heading north out of Bangalore. Indian hospitality is well-known among international travelers and it was on full display last night as members of our delegation were guests of His Excellency Mr. H.R. Bharadwaj, governor of the state of Karnataka, where Bangalore is located. Set up by […]
Visiting India’s high tech capital
Bangalore (Monday) – After a relatively quiet Sunday highlighted by lunch with Indian Ambassador Rajendra Abhyankar and the U.S. Consul General in Mumbai Peter Haas and his wife, Amy, it was south to Bangalore last night for two days in one of the fastest-growing cities in Asia. That growth has been driven by a high-tech […]
Meeting the IU family
Taj Mahal Palace Hotel (Saturday night) This is IU so the question was bound to come up, even 8,000 miles from home. “So how’s the basketball team going to do this year?” asked a young Mumbai alumnus shortly after introducing himself. After assuring him that we were going to be better once again this year, […]
Monsoon season
MUMBAI (Saturday afternoon) There’s rain. There’s monsoon. And then there’s what we drove through this afternoon on 0ur way back from a very productive meeting at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Mumbai is heading into the final month of monsoon season, which brings up to a foot-and-a-half of rain – a month – to […]
Greetings from Mumbai
Hello, all! President McRobbie, his wife Laurie, and the rest of the IU contingent have arrived in Mumbai for the start of our 11-day trip across India to forge new academic partnerships with some of India’s best universities, meet with business and political leaders and renew ties with IU alumni. Our journey will take us […]
