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Return to India decision – in ONE tweet

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 19, 20121 mins

Pic: courtesy pecksandbushels.blogspot.com Yeah – Twitter is an addictive time-sink but it does offer a few redeeming moments. The tweet below is one such moment. The one tweet answer to… Should I…

Taking the pressure off your R2I decision

Vishy KurugantiJuly 11, 20122 mins

Problem with starting your morning with Twitter (or Facebook) is that you might exceed your “daily dose” by 9am itself. On the bright side (especially if you are a blogger), you might read something…

Leaving Hotel California

Vishy KurugantiJuly 02, 20123 mins

The Sirens trying to tempt Ulysses’ sailors It’s been a little over four years since I wrote Why are we moving back to India now? I thought of our R2I decision this morning as I read Tim Kreider’s…

4 years of blogging!

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 09, 20122 mins

Yup – 4 years! To celebrate my 4-year blogging anniversary, I migrated my WordPress-hosted wordpress.ulaar.com blog to ulaar.com. I’m sure it’s an event the blogosphere’s been looking forward to with…

Attracting diaspora to address India’s higher education faculty gap

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 15, 20114 mins

Pic: courtesy hebrewhistory.info [Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on my other blog (TechSangam) – republishing here since it’s clearly relevant to the Return to India meme. Earlier…

Bengali Mumbaikar takes the long way home

Vishy KurugantiJuly 29, 20102 mins

Soumya Banerjee (my friend from University of Houston days) returned from Boston to India 10 years ago – a period which we can term the “first wave” of reverse brain drain. Very few of my Indian…

Why we are in India (Bollywood Inspired Version)

Vishy KurugantiApril 10, 20104 mins

Movies were never a dominant part of my entertainment. It’s not that I dislike them – it’s just that there always seem to be more interesting things to do. It’s thus a tad bit ironic that I found…

The Art of Returning to India

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 20, 20102 mins

If you’ve previously visited the blog, you may have noticed that the blog title used to be Return to Accustomed Earth. It was a play on Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories – Unaccustomed Earth…

A year in Bangalore – the unwritten blog posts

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 06, 20095 mins

Pic: courtesy elbo.ws We hit our ‘one year anniversary in India’ on India’s Independence Day – Aug 15, 2009. A few months ago, we toyed with the idea of throwing a party and invite all our friends…

Gurgaon Growling

Vishy KurugantiJune 18, 20093 mins

Gurgaon at night (Pic: courtesy flickriver.com) I wrote this post in my head in June 2008 shortly after my 2-week reconnoisance trip to India before the big move. Thanks to the growing list of…

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