India

India was a great experience. I did more in two weeks, than I would have learned from a classroom. It inspires me more to travel more international to learn more about the world. I learned more about Indian’s food, culture, people, religions, cities, IT companies we visits, business, school, and many more. On my way back to JRC I met two ladies in the plane. One of them was coming to New Work for 10 days for her job, while the other lady lives in New York. Both of them are Indians. We spoke about my weeks experience in India and their jobs and the company they work for. Kalpana Jain PhD is the country manager, India Vice President, Education and Training. She uses to work at college, where she worked with students on study abroad, study tours, and international internships. She gave me great managerial advices and about traveling around the world. According to http://www.hitecsystems.com/  “Hi-Tec Systems, Inc., an award winning SBA-certified Small Business (SB), has enhanced the safety and security of air travel for over fifteen years. A Department of Transportation newsletter recognized Hi-Tec as a small business "Success Story." Secretary Norman Mineta bestowed Hi-Tec with the DOT’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Award, documenting what the Federal Aviation Administration called “invaluable” technical expertise, system engineering, and data analysis in its research initiatives. Aviation Week & Space Technology gave President/CEO Tribhuvan Singh its Laurels Award for Outstanding Achievement and Hi-Tec earned a place on the Inc. 500 list, celebrating the fastest-growing privately held businesses in America.” The other lady that I meet was Lele Madhushree the Lead Consultant | Recruitment – PRM for Capgimini, which mission is to “enables you to transform your organization and improve performance. We aim to empower you to respond more quickly and intuitively to changing market dynamics. By bolstering your ability to harness the right technology, we help you become more agile and competitive”, according to their website. He told what looks in for new employees, but she only hires in India.

Hyderabad

Hyderabad was a great city to visit. While there we went on the city tour. We saw great Mosques. We visited both the old and new city. While there I saw more medical offices than the previous places we were at. We went to see the cyber tower, which was the first building there. We also visited another king palace which was also beautiful. However, my favorite place was visiting the Association Saikorian of Krushi home for children lost. It was great to see people passionate helping homeless children. The kids were polite, respectful, handsome, and very friendly. That really made my trip beautiful. The kids prayed before eating, which great to see. The children have open relationship with their parent, if the parent can’t afford to take care of them the orphanage would. The kids go visit home. Dr. Raos who has been supporting with his school is a great inspiration to all of us, about giving back to the needy children. I really admire him for it.

Chennai City Tour

While in Chennai we went on the city tour. Besides visiting temples, businesses and it was nice to get the city tour. We went to the malls, market, and factories. It was kind of crazy to see the way the busses were packed during transport. At the market it was full of people, because people were shopping for the festival. Ridding the train was another experience, where there were lots of people. You had to rush in and out. It was king off fun. We had the chance to get Saris, wear it and go out in it. It was great to experience that aspect of the culture.

Grundfos

Grundfos was one of the companies we visited in Chennai. It was the first and only green company India as of now.  It a Danish company that makes pumps for domestic buildings, apartments, malls, hotels, industries. There was no smoking in the buildings or outside of it. Their slogan is to be responsible think ahead innovative. While there we were told about how India has change due to telephones, constructions, televisions, and outsourcings in India. It was nice to see all green building.

Fort Museum

Fort Museum

During our visit to India we went to Chennai. In Chennai we went on Chennai city tour in which we went to Fort museum. India was colonized by England. This museum is an archeological survey of India of portraits, prints, metals, uniforms. This was fascinating because this building was trading activities for few decades took place for all merchants, ships captains, the government entertainments, for public lottery, and dealers. This helped boost their economy according to the museum brochure, and this events all happening here showed the important of this building. The brochure also talked about this building later becoming the British Army officers mess. I found coins there and I compare them to the money I was currently using in India in rupees, I found lots of the coins still being used today, even though this building was completed in 1795. This building was important to both the Indians business of trade and to the British army. I also found things traded from Salem in the United States, which showed the successes and the international trades they did with many parts of the world.

With this building trading internationally it was not a museum before. The idea of the museum came about by Raj and Col. D.M. Reid of the Old Madras in 1946. The museum came about two years later in 1948 according to the brochure. As I entered the main lobby there was a white marble statue of Lord Cornwallis. My first thought was the reason his statue was at the main lobby entrance. As I took tours of the museum I found arms collections. This was important because these cannons and the mortars were the used in the victory of the English against the native powers. The arms showed what was used then to fight for power. Along with the arms were the uniforms worn by the British in the Indian Army. The army was also giving copper and silver medals and medallions by the British to the soldiers who fought alongside them whether they were native or British. This showed the Indian and native relationship with the native in time of war and fights for power.

With the native and the British fighting alongside each other was not the only importance of this museum. There were collections of Porcelain of tableware with the east India company logo on them, which was used by the government. I was surprise to see each of the tableware had the company logo on them even to the spoons and forks.  According to the brochure the porcelains were Persians inscriptions which had the dates of their patron on them. On the other hand, the silverwares were from the Churches of southern India. For example, there was dish donated by Elihu Yale to St. Mary’s Fort St. George. In addition, the museum had important portraits. Some of the portraits were of Queen Victoria, Nawab Wallajah with Lawrence and robbers Cliver. The museum also had prints. In addition, the museum had prints to provide the 18 century view of many Indian monumental heritages, the museum original book, book of bible, and the first two registers of Baptism. This museum was interesting for showing many things.

Temples

Temples

While In India we visited many temples. We visited the Triumph temple in Bangalore. We also visited Shiva temple in Chennai, which was my favorite temple. At this temple only the priest was allowed to put flower on it. You had to remove your shoes to enter into the temple. The peacock was shown, while Brahma was not there because he was not to be worship. That because he was curve by Shiva. While there we were told about Hindu following the astrology for their marriages. This is done by the priest matching the bride and groom birth dates to see if they are a match, which I found very interesting.