René Seifert - Entrepreneur & Global Citizen

Well, well, as apparently the “T.I.I.” (=This is India) part finds some likening, I have my camera a bit more often with me than usually. And the good thing is that you really don’t have to stroll around too long before you spot your next motive. So it happend “JATC” (=just around the corner) that I found this one: T.I.I.

T.I.I. because of three reasons:

* The state of the building site in the back and the nice blue gift-wrap as coverage in the front
* The guy working without any safety-precausions on the side of the highly frequented Brigade Road with very rudimentary equipment

* Last, but not least, the classic: another guy just standing there, staring and watching. Usually, the ratio of work:stare is 1:3

T.I.I.

A nice network that has emerged around a year ago or so is the Bangalore Expat Club and today there was an event in the Kerala-style restaurant Karavalli. It was supposed to be a “cooking class”, it was fun, but also a bit bizzare. We were around 25 people (”the audience”) and then there was the chef (”the chef”) from the Taj Gateway where the restaurant is located. The easy and involving way would have been just to let us stand around the chef and watch. But, maybe in a bit of T.I.I., we had one of the conference rooms, proper seating, the chef on stage with a professional wireless mic on his collar, a screen and a live camera showing what is going on there. Yet, it was a bit of a strange experience.

After that, we went into Karavalli and had some fantastic food where I opted for the Fish Thali. Thalis are small portions from a variety of different dishes.

Also, I had a very interesting conversation with a lady to my left from the Netherlands who is working in the chicken breeding industry. In my curious ways, I wanted to know everything and learnt that this was a quite complex task of crossing the right chicken which spreads several generations, permutations and even having chicken with some specific features (e.g. strong breast) being treated as the intellectual property of a farm that can be sold to other farms in non-competing markets. Great stuff, especially when you get to know the numbers that they are running per week. Would be cool if it was my business, so I could show off with saying: “I got 7 million chicks in da house - RESPECT! ” ;-)

And finally, this is a billboard which advertises for a movie in Kannada, the local language of the State of Karnataka where Bangalore is the capital. And that’s what South Indian movie heroes look like. T.I.I.