Being back in Bangalore brings back floods of memories. My wife and I lived here when we had our first baby. This wasn’t part of our plan, particularly: we found out we we were expecting during the first week we moved here, back in late 2003. That was a challenging time for us: workwise I was building a new team in Bangalore for Autodesk’s consulting division, while Celia was dealing with all the issues related to a first pregnancy in a foreign country. Not to mention my father being diagnosed with terminal cancer, back in the UK. Our two years in Bangalore were an intense – but in some ways very rewarding – time for us. Given the circumstances, my wife had a very different experience than I did, and so was understandably apprehensive about coming back here with our children.
Life in Bangalore is in many ways much the same, and in others very different, 14 years later. On the one hand the traffic has impressively managed to get worse – despite the opening of the Metro…