Day 9- Bangalore University
100,000- 1 lakh
100,000,000- 1 crore
Today we went to Bangalore University. At BU we got a tour of the Bangalore University Library. This is the first school we've seen that has subjects such as history and social work. I've been told by many that "soft" subjects such as these aren't valued as highly as more lucrative jobs in engineering or medicine.
The library had so many books but only three people on staff, so that was pretty impressive. The school and library were a little more rundown than, say Infosys' library but still very nice.
When then went to the outskirts of town, into the villages, to see the 400 year old Banyan Tree at Dodda Alada Mara. There are quite a bit of monkeys living in the tree which was just fantastic to see. Someone gave one of the monkeys peanuts and we got to see the power struggles between this monkey and all the other ones who wanted some peanuts too. These two baby monkeys had no chance but tried anyway.
After the tree and the monkeys it was time for some food, of course. We talked the professor into letting us go to Dominos as Parakh insisted that the Indian version would be amazing. But we all settled on trying 3 medium pizzas; a spicy chicken pizza, a peppy paneer pizza and a spicy delight pizza. It was delicious!
We drove the 45 minutes (traffic here makes everything take forever!) back go XIME, ate again (don't ask lol), then went off to see a comedy adaption of Macbeth at Ranga Shankara theater. The play is entitled "The Tragedy of MadBeth." It was performed by Rupesh Tillu. I enjoyed it a lot as it was really funny but not sure how much the others did. To be fair, this interpretation of Shakespeare probably has the playwright rolling in his grave.
I'll include something different from India in the US from one of my classmates' blog posts. He states: "The majority of the people in India are vegetarians. In order to clarify if a pre-packaged item is "veg" or "non-veg", there is a mandatory marking system. The green dot means the food is vegetarian & the brown dot means it is not.
Even some of my bottled water has a green dot on it. When the food is already prepared the cooks or wait staff will inform you us which dishes are "veg" & which are "non veg." "
100,000- 1 lakh
100,000,000- 1 crore
Today we went to Bangalore University. At BU we got a tour of the Bangalore University Library. This is the first school we've seen that has subjects such as history and social work. I've been told by many that "soft" subjects such as these aren't valued as highly as more lucrative jobs in engineering or medicine.
The library had so many books but only three people on staff, so that was pretty impressive. The school and library were a little more rundown than, say Infosys' library but still very nice.
When then went to the outskirts of town, into the villages, to see the 400 year old Banyan Tree at Dodda Alada Mara. There are quite a bit of monkeys living in the tree which was just fantastic to see. Someone gave one of the monkeys peanuts and we got to see the power struggles between this monkey and all the other ones who wanted some peanuts too. These two baby monkeys had no chance but tried anyway.
After the tree and the monkeys it was time for some food, of course. We talked the professor into letting us go to Dominos as Parakh insisted that the Indian version would be amazing. But we all settled on trying 3 medium pizzas; a spicy chicken pizza, a peppy paneer pizza and a spicy delight pizza. It was delicious!
We drove the 45 minutes (traffic here makes everything take forever!) back go XIME, ate again (don't ask lol), then went off to see a comedy adaption of Macbeth at Ranga Shankara theater. The play is entitled "The Tragedy of MadBeth." It was performed by Rupesh Tillu. I enjoyed it a lot as it was really funny but not sure how much the others did. To be fair, this interpretation of Shakespeare probably has the playwright rolling in his grave.
I'll include something different from India in the US from one of my classmates' blog posts. He states: "The majority of the people in India are vegetarians. In order to clarify if a pre-packaged item is "veg" or "non-veg", there is a mandatory marking system. The green dot means the food is vegetarian & the brown dot means it is not.
Even some of my bottled water has a green dot on it. When the food is already prepared the cooks or wait staff will inform you us which dishes are "veg" & which are "non veg." "
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