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India Trips
Understanding Indian Culture - I highly recommend three books for anyone who travels to India or who works with offshore outsourcers in India. While no words can adequately describe the cacaphony of sights, sounds and smells that erupt on you within seconds of landing, these books are accurate in their representations.
These books are also great tools for understanding some of the hurdles in working with Indian culture. It makes a big difference when you know why things happen the way they happen, and there are useful suggestions for how to manage through the cultural differences.
| Speaking of India - This is one of the best books I've read for explaining India communication mannerisms. The books provides practical examples and tips for avoid common pitfalls. It has an IT theme, and many of the examples are situations that IT managers will find very familiar. | ||
| Culture Shock India - The is a wonderful reference guide to the cultural history, norms, and travel guidance for anyone planning to visit India. The descriptions are accurate, and the historical and religious background provides a rich perspective that helps explain the wonderful diversity. | ||
| The White Tiger - This is a work of fiction, but by the end of the book a deeper understanding of Indian culture is illuminated, a culture that is hard to understand through description. The book is easy to read, and is very engaging. You'll finish it in no time, and will find that you have a different and more positive attitude towards the people who serve others. |
Mark's Trips to India
That weekend we
drove to Agra to see the Taj Mahal and Red Fort. It was
unbearably humid. By the time we returned to our hotel my
clothes were completely soaked from perspiration.
From Agra we flew to Kolkata, Chennai and Coimbatore before
flying home by way of Mumbai. The Mumbai airport is
surrounded by the biggest and poorest slum I've seen in India,
or in any other country.
Some of the folks on the trip did some sightseeing, but mine was
limited both due to long work hours and arthritis flareups.
The trip home started with a full workday beginning early
Thursday morning, and then pretty much non-stop until we drove
home from the Philadelphia Airport on Friday night.
Fortunately, most of us got some sleep on the planes.
November, 2010; January 2011 - I didn't take a camera on these
trips.
August 2010
- We flew direct from Newark
to New Dehli. Its a 16 hour flight, but much preferrable
to the two nine hour flights that route through Frankfurt.
We were picked up by drivers from the hotel for the hour drive
to Noida, where we visited the MetLife Office. We were
warmly greeted with heavy necklaces made from flowers, and a
candle-lighting ceremony over a colored-rice creation that took
several hours to arrange on the floor.
2010-August India Trip
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January 2010 -
We visited Chennai and
Coimbatore. We are overwhelmed by a rollercoaster of
emotions, and are speechless at what we see. The volume of
people, the noise, the smell, the traffic, the cows and bullock
carts (and elephants) sharing the road, the thousands of
motorbikes, some with a family of five on them. It was
overwhelming.
India_January 2010
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