Soft Landing Anyone?Vishy KurugantiJune 18, 20082 minsSoft landing. Two words used most often by friends and acquaintances when I revealed my India plans. “You want a soft landing”, the wise men said. Moving to India would be hard overall so taking up a…
Brother or Best Friend?Vishy KurugantiJune 17, 20081 minsMy two-week whirlwind India trip was not touching Hyderabad. This was a bummer because my brother lives there. Since I had a 6-day continuous stay in Bangalore, he planned a 2-day trip to Bangalore to…
The two types of Indian immigrantsVishy KurugantiJune 04, 20083 mins“When an Indian professional becomes a ‘Non-Resident Indian’ in the United States , he soon starts suffering from a strange disease. The symptoms are a fixture of restlessness,anxiety, hope and…
Why did the Kurugantis immigrate to America?Vishy KurugantiJune 04, 20082 minsSometime in my 2nd year of engineering at BIT Mesra, I first dreamed of coming to America, getting trained as a computer scientist, doing cutting-edge research and becoming wildly famous – you know…
Why are we moving back to India now?Vishy KurugantiJune 02, 20084 minsThis is the first question our friends and acquaintances ask when they learn about our India plans. The first part of the answer lies in understanding why we immigrated to America in the first place…
Why the urge to blog *now* ?Vishy KurugantiJune 01, 20082 minsThe itch to blog has been there for several years. But I’m more of a generalist than a specialist. I believe it’s much easier for specialists to blog regularly than generalists. Audiences are…
Where in India are we moving to?Vishy KurugantiMay 30, 20083 minsSo we are moving to India but to which city? For better or worse, the list of candidate cities is fairly small. Before we get into discussing the merits and demerits of each city, let me outline the…
16 years later…Vishy KurugantiMay 19, 20081 mins16 years? Well – to be more precise 15 years, 9 months & 5 days since I came to America from India. Chasing the American Dream I came.. first to the University of Houston to pursue an MS in Computer…
Etymology of ulaarVishy KurugantiFebruary 22, 20081 minsBack in my undergraduate alma mater (Birla Institute of Technology Ranchi, India), the ulaar moniker referred to students who were gentlemen of leisure, or in other words, displayed very little…
A Time to QikVishy KurugantiFebruary 06, 20082 minsThe venerable Palm Pilot 5000 I’ve always been an early adopter of technologies. Shortly after I moved to the Bay Area in ’98, I bought the 1st generation Palm Pilot 5000 – absolutely loved it…
