Just got back from Bangalore, and guess what was waiting for me in my email? A message from the grad student I worked with from Summer 2003 through Spring 2004. My research work (building a database for the murine Notch gene pathway) has been published in Science. Granted, it’s a one paragraph [...]
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When I first came back to India in 1996, I remember noticing that I was the only person wearing blue jeans…. boy, have things changed. Today, designer brands are in: Adidas, Levi’s, Reebok, Wrangler, Nike, etc. Every person under the age of 25 are caught only wearing jeans, and everyone seems to [...]
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Whitefield is a town near Bangalore. Back in the day (50 years ago), it was where retired British soldiers lived. The place was considered a frontier, with no regular drinking water, but it offered cheap land. My great-grandfather (he was a colonel in the Indian army) bought land here in the 60s, and set up [...]
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I went to Bangkok for a few days with my grandparents. That city was absolutely amazing.. I never realized Bangkok had such a clean feel to it: it felt like Singapore, without the police force.
I spent a couple days sightseeing, and in the process, I saw Buddha in every form possible.. laughing buddha, sitting buddha, [...]
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