Valley Chai

as i am getting ready to leave bangalore for my home in the silicon valley, here’s a quick list of the good home-style restaurants that feed good south-indian food.

Nagarjuna Restaurant - Residency Road
Avakkai Restaurant - Residency Road
Amaravathi Restaurant - Off Residency Road/ M. G road
Nandhini Restaurant - St. Mark’s Road
Bhimas - Church street, off Brigade
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love it.. check out this report of how laloo’s indian railways would allow advertising on the trains. laloo prasad yadav (the railway minister) is going to invite bids to name trains after corp brands. here’s another report on the pilot program, which named a train Kurkure (indian version of chee-tos) Express. Image of the train […]

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had a chance to meet the founders of the music sharing site muziboo at the open coffee club bangalore, hosted by thoughtworks. it has a host of user-generated music clips, some original compositions and some amateur renditions of others’ tunes - here’s one emulating green day. The site has a few hundred such tunes. with […]

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for some reason i thought the universal header on google sites shows the links to only the products that you normally use. i noticed today the “products” link showed up, clearly to coincide with the holiday season. i have stopped using froogle long time ago, so i was surprised at the uncharacteristic intrusion from google.
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via Paul Kedrosky of Infectious Greed and MarketWatch stories
specifically in the IT sector, it says
The report showed 54% of all venture deals in India were for companies in the Information Technology (IT) categories, as 31 rounds were completed in the first nine months of the year, accounting for more than $327 million worth of investment.
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