So, I got an Indian visa, what do you do in Chennai if you have 1 free week?

[CodeforFood]

So, Foxconnies have finally made their mind for building a cellphone plant in India. Big cuts for engineering consultants familiar with "South Asian specifics..."

I will have a few free weeks to setup myself there before we will go to survey the site.

Timing is tricky, as we also going to Gitex for networking, and sales next week in Dubai.

you can spy for Pakistan ... . I mean in your 'free' time

 

[Bilal9]

To give some credit to Indian police, a policeman shooed him away, but not before he did his deed, so I rode to hotel with a piece of s smeared on my boot, and a face red from rage, and embarrassment.



They swarmed me instantly when I left the airport. Here my experience didn't change from 5 years ago.

Waitta minute! I thought India was now "new" per the Chest-puffer India braggarts here.

Oh well. Lesson learned.

Of course, When I land in Delhi, there's a whole security detail waiting for me to pick me up and whisk me away.

Shoe-Poo scammers can't get anywhere near me.

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Not possible at the airport . You cant enter there without verification. You must have watched that karl rock video
Don't lie troll

Anyone that gives real accounts is a troll now.....I can vouch for this myself.

"new" India only belongs in the figment of the Sanghi imagination......

Sanghi fakery only goes so far.....we have all been to India multiple times a year, especially Bangladeshis who are the largest group of tourists to India. We are literally paying the hotel, restaurant and hospital bills for that country and keeping them alive.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

When I land in Delhi, there's a whole security detail waiting for me to pick me up and whisk me away.

Given your kind's economic status here in US,
The only security detail in India affordable for you would be a BSF escort to the nearest migrant detention center

 

[Paul2]

My second week in India.:

Chennai is SOO MUCH nicer than Delhi. Both cleaner, and easier to breath. To my nose, Delhi smelt awful for most places. You can't get used to that "yesterday's hotpot" smell overlapping with soot, and petrol. That was total Naraka.

Chennai's roads are narrower, but feel much better maintained than in Delhi as well. I see more people here opt for scooters over regular motorcycles.

I noticed, fewer people speak English here, and fewer Hindi as well. Taiwanese Hindi translator was for a nasty surprise when he realised that.

We started work with Indian staff today. Taiwanese on other teams were for a big surprise: they encountered partially/fully illiterate persons for the first time. And they got a total heart attack when I told them there being more people in line being like that, and that Tamil Nadu was actually better than the rest of India on literacy.

They also got a batch of village boys who couldn't speak well pretty much anything. They only conversed in what I was told was very basic rural Tamil variety. They had to work with them pretty much using gestures, and trying to use other Tamil speakers to interpret.

I was a bit surprised too. I though that at least people younger than 30 in India must be all fully literate by now.

That's how we work.

Given your kind's economic status here in US,
The only security detail in India affordable for you would be a BSF escort to the nearest migrant detention center

Now back to horror stories. A Foxconn Taiwanese American employee who was about to join my team got detained in Mumbai over the weekend. He wandered into Colaba, and clicked a photo of the Afghan Church there. He got 3 weeks detention + deportation + 5 year visa ban. Americans can't read I guess. It's written in bold letters on Indian visa application: "I obliges not to enter restricted/protected areas under the foreigners (protected areas) act of 1958 without a prior written approval of Ministry of Home Affairs"...

Today was a bad morning for me.

1. For once, I decided to walk to the campus from a hotel on foot. I slipped on a random puddle of concrete in the middle of nowhere, and felt on it. Landed on my bag, and hands, little splashed on my shirt. I had to walk few miles with my hands in concrete before I got to a water outlet. A minor concrete burn on right hand left.
2. Went to buy groceries into Star Bazaar. I was heading for a checkout, and in front of the checkout there was some kind of a Diwali display. I was passing by it, and hear BZZZT: a nail sticking out of it tore through my new Uniqlo tshirt I bought in Delhi... It left a finger sized hole, and a bad scratch. Cursing it, and proceeding to the checkout anyways, to total indifference of the staff, and passerby. Waiting in line, then I hear BZZZT again, and I see a lady got her dress ruined by the same nail. I finally reached the checkout, and I see another woman coming, and almost hitting the same nail as I shout be careful.
3. Day sucked, and I decided to not to wait for OLA, and try a regular taxi instead. Was going back to my hotel room, and noticing something black smeared on my t-shirt. It was a trace of the taxi's seatbelt...
   
   
   
   
4. It only been 3 days, and my new t-shirt is ruined.

 

[Paul2]

It's my second week in Chennai. I still can't digest it how such difference in attitudes can be within one country.

So far, I've been in Bengaluru, and Chennai in the south. While Bengaluru has severe traffic problems, it's super duper clean in comparison to whatever I've seen in India up to now.

Also, affluent venues are not walled off here, nor there are shops which hire guys with sticks to shoo off street urchins. Everything is open.

In the North, and Mumbai 5 years ago, everything nice seemed to be situated inside walled off districts, inside walled off societies, with access controlled buildings.

 

[Paul2]

Job is done! Air travel is so cheap in India. I think I will give a visit to Kolkata, to compare it with Dhaka today.

 

[Paul2]

Impressions from Chennai, and Sriperumbudur: It's a wealthy city by Indian standards, yet such a pigsty.

Tamil Nadu feels strange. There are a lot of nice cars, and even in villages, there are Honda Civics.

I never seen so much cars in rural India, let alone expected to see anything other than a Suzuki.

Roads were terrible in comparison to the rest of India.

Very chaotic place. You go to "richest locality in the city" and there are dirt roads in between marble ladden mansions, and katchi abadis

 

[Paul2]

Tamil villages feel to be notable more wealthy than rural areas in the rest of India.

Traffic was terrible 24/7, way worse that anywhere I been. I guess these are all those people with cars who commute for work?

 

[Maula Jatt]

@Paul2
Damn you really like to be candid and open with your shit talk lol
I just hope you don't have Pakistan experience threads