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By • May 10th, 2012 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Featured, India, Life, Video
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A tour of the Anglo-Indian kitchen table with Bangalore-based Bridget White Kumar reveals a list of interesting sounding dishes like bubble and squeak, pepper water, Bengal Lancers shrimp curry, railway mutton curry, dak bunglow curry, Hussainy curry, foogath,  pepper okra, bread pudding, carmel custard and shandy. Bridget deconstructs these dishes in the interview and takes us [...]



By • May 4th, 2012 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Featured, India, People, Video
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Meet Bangalore’s cartoonist Paul Fernandes, who found that he could not stay away from the city even if he wanted to. There is something about this “city of pubs,” “pensioner’s paradise,” “garden city” that keeps him grounded and happy.  It is the many moods of that happy, delightful and lazy charm of an old Bangalore [...]



By • Apr 26th, 2012 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, VC & Private Equity Funding
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Mohandas Pai on education, investment  and IPO  in part-2 of our conversation.  He is the chairperson of the board of  Manipal Global Education Services that has schools and educational institutions in India, Malaysia, Dubai and Antigua.  Interestingly, the California Educational System serves as a role model for Manipal’s educational system. What prompted Mohan to join Manipal Global [...]



By • Apr 19th, 2012 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India
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How do  you keep a company financially healthy? How do you deal with the capital structure and the financial forecasting of a company? That is the challenge many companies face, and having an efficient and effective Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is key to the financial success of a company. Meet Mohandas Pai, who has carved out [...]