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Study
Abroad in India 2007
Updated June 4,
2007 -
trip completed.
We made the Newspaper!
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May 20 Sunday - Leave
Atlanta, Arrive in Delhi - The group is safe in Delhi!
May
21 Monday - Delhi
National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development in Noida (to the right below, see Rita Sengupta, Vinod Gupta, K.R. Arya, Executives from NIESBUD, and GSU's Siva Nathan)
 
Visit Amity University (above, left Siva Nathan lights The Amity University lamp, and the welcome sign below)
Meet with Mr. C.L. Sharma, CEO of Accurate Meters & Dr. Raju Voleti, Advisor at Global Institute of Management and Technology.
Dinner with leading Delhi-based entrepreneurs including Ms. Wisma Atria, Architect & Interior Designer for the interiors of leading Indian airlines.
 
Mr. Hyun Lee and Dr. Ha's class from South Korea will be joined us! (Mr. Lee and Zoe to the left, above and Barron, Kenn, and Lauren to the right, above)
May 22 Tuesday-
Visit the Taj Mahal
& Agra Fort
Travel by Rail Shatabdi Express Train
Delhi
(Group 2, Jamila, Austin, Erik, and Joey on the train, below left. On the right, see how hard Chris is wokring?)
 
Shah Jehan, in a gesture of wild extravagance that
nearly bankrupted his empire, built the Taj Mahal
(photo below), a lavish
memorial to his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Twenty
thousand men labored for over 17 years, using white
marble and precious stones to create beautiful designs.
Visit the Agra Fort, where the Emperor dispensed justice
to his subjects and received foreign dignitaries.
Enjoy a cooking demonstration and lecture on Indian
spices and sample the results.
 
(Above left, Joi and Jamila in front of main gate and above right, Joseph, Barronm Laurie, Joi and Chris find some shade)
May 23 Wednesday - Leave
for Chennai
A morning tour of Old Delhi. See the 300-year-old walled city and the magnificent Red Fort built of red sandstone. Within its walls are marble palaces and a grand audience chamber.
Delhi 10:25am to Chennai 1:00pm (airport photos)
 
Chennai is trisected by two east-flowing rivers
that traverse its width. The Cooum river almost
divides the city into half and the Adyar river
divides the southern half of the city into two.
The historic buckingham canal runs nearly parallel
to the coast almost through the entire length of
the city.
The city has somewhat ungenerously described as
having three seasons - hot, hotter and hottest. Indeed,
except for four pleasant months, November to February,
the weather is uniformly hot and humid.... May is
the hottest season with the mercury sometimes touching
42 C and the mean temperature about 33 C.
Chennai, (formerly Madras)
the first city of Tamil Nadu, is a comparatively
new city. The erstwhile villages of Mylapore, Triplicane,
Ezhambur (Egmore) etc. all now a part of Chennai,
have a recorded historical past centuries older than
Chennai. Chennai, the present gateway to the South
of India, is itself, however, only about 350 years
old.
Dinner with Mr. V.K. Sundaram, chairman of Sudharsan Group, and his sons Vijay and Ajay. The Sudharsan group is one of India's leading granite exporters.
May 24 Thursday
- Chennai, India
Meet with Mr.
C. S. Subramanian (Founder and CEO - Brij Datalink Pvt. Ltd.)
(Chris, Sean, and Jon listen , below left. On the right, Brij software programmers at work)
 
 
Visit Allsec Technologies, a call center
Meet Mr. P. Viswanathan , Executive Director
Meet call center employees.
 
Visit First Source (a business process ousourcing company)
Meet Mr. Raju Venkatraman (Chief Operating Officer)
May 25 Friday - Chennai (Madras)
Meet with Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala (Professor of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, below left)
 
Visit the manufacturing facilities of Specific Computer Printers Ltd
Lunch with Mr. Gowri Shankar, CEO of the company, (below left)
 
Visit the Great Lakes Institute
of Management - Meet with MBA students interested in entrepreneurship, hosted by Professor R.S. Veeravalli (below right, in red tie)
 
From page 2 of the Hindu Times
Dinner at Hotel Savera (Piano Restaurant) with Mr. Ramanathan, Manager Carnatica.net
May 26 Saturday - Chennai
(Madras)
Sightseeing
in Chennai - Fort St George,
High Court, George Town, Government Musuem, National
Art Gallery, Marina Beach
 
May 27 Sunday - Travel to Bangalore via
Train - Sightseeing
Shatabdi Express Train from Chennai to Bangalore
 
  
May 28 Monday -
Bangalore
Visit Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore
with Professor Gandhi (below left) and Dr. Kumar (below right) and their inspirational entrepreneurship students
 
 
Visit Infosys, world's largest outsourcing and BPO firm
May 29 Tuesday - Bangalore
Visit Strand Life Sciences
Meet Vijay Chandru - Chairman, Co-founder, and CEO (right)
Visit Central Silk Board (below)
May 30 Wednesday -
Leave for Mumbai (India Gate below)
 
Hanging Gardens (below), Jon makes a friend (two below), and the Old Lady in a Shoe (last)
 
 
Adishwarji Jain Temple (below)
 
May 31 Thursday
- Mumbai (Bombay)
Visit Reliance Industries Ltd (below, their incredible global command center and two below, founder quote and Joey sports their wearable cell phone)
 
June 1 Friday - Mumbai (Bombay)
Sightseeing to Elephant Island Caves
 
Bombay 3:45pm to Delhi 5:45pm Jet Airways 370
June 2 Saturday
- June 3 Sunday - Arrive in Atlanta
Sightseeing in Delhi during the Day
Delhi 10:50pm to Newark 4:35am Continental Airlines
Flight 83
Newark 9:05am to Atlanta 11:48am Continental
Airlines Flight 1165 |
