Bangalore! It's supposed to be India's version of Silicon Valley. India has lots of versions of things that...uh...are very weird in comparison to the thing they are supposed to be imitating. (c.f. Bollywood/Hollywood). And yeah, the driving. Everything in India seems farcical to me sometimes. Like, they know everything they're *supposed* have, i.e. traffic laws, pavements, etc. but nothing actually works, and people don't actually seem to know what they're for.
I can totally see the Mexico comparison. New Orleans also really reminds me of Calcutta; an extremely European city in a hot, steamy, sensual place with a vibrant, powerful indigenous, non-caucasian population; shuttered windows, and extreme poverty.
When I graduated from college, I traveled through India (before I'd done a lot of visiting relatives, but never actually done much sight-seeing) and I got to race a camel in the Thar desert. It was awesome.
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Date: 2008-08-15 06:44 pm (UTC)I can totally see the Mexico comparison. New Orleans also really reminds me of Calcutta; an extremely European city in a hot, steamy, sensual place with a vibrant, powerful indigenous, non-caucasian population; shuttered windows, and extreme poverty.
When I graduated from college, I traveled through India (before I'd done a lot of visiting relatives, but never actually done much sight-seeing) and I got to race a camel in the Thar desert. It was awesome.