2023-02 - Bangalore, India meetings
ITC Gardenia, 1 Residency Rd, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru
Bangalore is a wonderful creative hub. It feels like the new San Francisco, with creative ambitious people moving there from all over India. A super-casual California-style culture, free from the formality and materialism of Delhi and Mumbai.
Bangalore is such a great place to live - (good weather, culture, people) - that the money made in Bangalore is staying in Bangalore instead of fleeing overseas like it used to, so this feeds the local arts and culture scene, making it an even better place to live.
I loved it so much that I wanted to cancel my return flight and just live there now. Instead, it’s now my second home, in my heart, and I’ll be returning often.
click a name for notes:
Ricky Kej- music, QR code menu, religion, gifts, Chanakya U, self-sufficient village
Sindhu Shivaprasad- Nigeria, freedom, writing, England, third culture kid, home, Kannada, South Bangalore, Japan
Ayush Jain- Rajasthan, Singapore, Bangalore, startups, education, course design, Nairobi
Ranjana Iyer- dance, relationships, Peru
Pavitra Gurumurthi- Wellington
Udhay Shankar N- old school tech, Bangalore, startups
Shreyas Prakash- language, charity, voice prompts, maker spaces, hospitals, Bangalore
Trisha Reddy- writing, America, yoga, swimming, stories
Pradarshan- backpacking, writing, Bangalore, startups, history
Kaushal Shah- Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Bangalore, politics, meditation, comedy, skimming books
Kartik Isvarmurti- agriculture, Mysore, customer service
Nikhil Jois- books, AI, schools, IoT, startups, marriage
Arunsathyaseelan Palanichami- Tamil Nadu, names, family, Bangalore, north vs south india, Tamil culture
Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan- Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore
Ayushi Mukhi- Delhi, Bangalore, cultural differences, college, writing
Ritesh Nagpal- kids, family, Gita, UPI, Hyderabad, divorce
Siddharth V. Rao- Seychelles, law, school, whiskey
Anish Raju- nomad, coach, parenting
Nirant Kasliwal- north vs south India culture, status, Jainism, Bangalore, Urdu poetry, Sufism
Kartikeya Bhardwaj- AI, security, Bangalore, music, hip-hop
Srikanthan Kumarasamy- trauma, coaching
Apoorve Singhal- AI, UPI, Python
Saurav Arya- nomad, travel, Kenya, Rwanda, Nagaland
Jesvin Mathew- Bahrain, Kerala, family, drumming
Moina Abdul- illustration, books, collaboration
Srijan Mahajan- motorcycles, Delhi, creative technology
Kaustubh Maske Patil- programming, Haskell
Saurabh Mithal- meditation, Seth Godin
Alicia Souza- illustration, Abu Dhabi, Goa, Catholicism
Yogesh Nachnani- Linux, PostgreSQL, WhatsApp, journaling, Aadhaar, cost of living
Arif Vakil- Sufi, Gujarat, Islam, parenting
Ganesh K- startups, Aadhaar, UPI
Jyothirmayee JT- India, Bengal, delegation