By bluerasberry on November 4, 2011
Nandan Nilekani is most famous for having been so successful as CEO of one of India’s largest software companies, Infosys. He since left a lot of business-only interests and took a cabinet-level central government position (chair of the Unique Identification Authority of India) as a person who would head the design, implementation, and regulation of [...]
Posted in computer, India | Tagged identification, website
By bluerasberry on August 24, 2011
Nandan had told me that he was working with a British documentary crew and that things were cool. He has worked with with film crews before and he seems to enjoy it and some good work has been done. The day before the shoot they say, “Oh, Richard Dawkins is hosting this. You are his [...]
Posted in India, service industry | Tagged celebrity, science
By bluerasberry on May 15, 2011
I met Father Anand for the first time on April 16, Palm Sunday. Ravi and I went to the Catholic church to talk to him and watch this play they were organizing to teach the story of Easter. There were strange things about the service as compared to other Catholic services and I wondered what [...]
Posted in India, work | Tagged videography
By bluerasberry on May 15, 2011
Sarukh and Abdul arrived the week I was going to leave and I was very happy to see them. Nandan’s father had a problem with Sarukh because he did not have legal ID, so I suggested that I would put them in a hotel. Nandan’s father wanted me to stay inside the house because he [...]
Posted in gay stuff, India | Tagged dance, sex, wedding
By bluerasberry on May 11, 2011
I have been trying to learn some Bengali sign language and it has been fun for me to try to communicate with Abdul. I feel bad about regional sign languages; they seem like languages with little history or cultural attachment and I get this idea in my hide that there should be a big international [...]
Posted in India, non-profit | Tagged language
By bluerasberry on April 30, 2011
So Nandan and I went to Kolkata to retrieve that 250kg of books I sent there from Seattle back in January. It arrived March 3 but no one contacted us or became aware of its arrival. I had the American shipper track it and he found in it Kolkata. We hired a customs house agent [...]
Posted in encounter, India, museum, tour | Tagged Kolkata
By bluerasberry on April 14, 2011
Amit came to my place early this morning. This was about the fifth time he visited. He is cute and I like having him around. I am not really sure of what to think of this culturally and Nandan does not know either, but when he came today he brought his troll with him and [...]
Posted in encounter, gay stuff, India | Tagged dance
By bluerasberry on March 21, 2011
Pradeep left on March 18. I had a lot of fun with him and I told him he would be welcome back anytime. I did not want him to go but he was concerned about returning to Mumbai to get a job on salary. Salary jobs are easier to get in Mumbai than Varanasi, definitely. [...]
Posted in India, work | Tagged money
By bluerasberry on March 11, 2011
Last time I was in India I tried to like the kind of food which is currently most popular in Varanasi. This was a mistake – their food is unhealthy and not suitable to my tastes. Furthermore, I do not believe that it is even traditional and assert that despite what locals say, they have [...]
Posted in health, India | Tagged food
By bluerasberry on March 8, 2011
I really enjoy having Pradeep around. He accompanies me almost everywhere and tells me about Mumbai and asks me about Varanasi and Seattle. It is my nature to engage in conversation for longer periods of time than most people can tolerate but so far Pradeep seems cool having me pump his brain for the entirety [...]
Posted in gay stuff, India | Tagged culture