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Dear reader,

This website has now moved to www.behzadlarry.com . I will no longer be using blogger to manage my site and have instead switched to a different content management system.

Although comments are not enabled on the new site at this time, I shall be making that arrangement very soon.

Best,
Behzad

I have to go to Patna city (the old part of town) quite frequently, and this is what it looks like. Chaos. My operations manager and friend Pramod was driving and I filmed this from my cell phone.

Slumdog.

Visited a slum this morning to see one of Nidan's schools in operation along with Kash, who is visiting from AIF New York. While there I saw these extremely adoptable puppies.

If you are on facebook- then go vote for AIF. It's a chance for them to win USD 10k-1 million.

Happy Thanksgiving

Enjoy your turkeys, and your mashed potatoes, and your cranberry sauce. I'll be having chicken curry instead.

Back in Patna

Back in Patna. I've traveled a lot in India, from Kashmir to Tamil Nadu and every western state. But I never traveled East, or North East (of Indore that is). This was my first trip to Jharkhad, and to Jamshedpur. I must say that it was an eye opener. That city (at least the TATA controlled part) is clean, organized, efficient and GREEN. More so than any other city. Perhaps privatization of certain things (in India) is good. Bureaucrats shouldn't manage cities- or rather the current crop of Indian bureaucrats shouldn't. Dealing with them in Patna is a nightmare, and I've often thought that the city would operate better if it weren't for all the red-tape. A visit to Jamshedpur shows that this is indeed true.

Jamshedpur

In Jamshedpur right now. Great city. One of only 2 planned cities in India, the other one being Chandigarh. Which means they mapped out the city, the streets, parks etc, before they started constructing it. Managed entirely by Tata Steel. The only city in India privately managed. One can see the difference. I'm partial to Tata to begin with and Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, JRD, and all are awesome. They have avenues here. Saw a sign for 7th and 8th avenues. That's how planned it is. And it's clean. Spectacularly clean compared to Patna, or even Indore. It helps to have India's largest infrastructure, steel, auto- etc company manage it.

More updates later.