Flight to India

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Boarding in 20 mins with Neel. I hope there is in-flight internet. If not, will be live from India tomorrow.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Karthik, I think you will learn more when you visit North India. Plus we should plan a meeting in South India as well. Our next plan is in East Coast, USA and then West Coast, USA.

Karthikeyan Anbarasan · Answer

@Mahesh - thats really good to know about the future plans... Also as you discussed earlier we can have frequent local meeting which helps members to get motivated about our site growing... @Suthish -- You are rt, best way is to speak and learn :)

Suthish Nair · Answer

Me too from South Side. I used to watch lots of Hindi movies, which helped me a lot to improve the language. Still not so perfect, but i improved a lot because during my initial carrer my collegues used to make fun of me when ever i speak in Hindi :) . But now they says i improved a lot. :) Hope so..

Karthikeyan Anbarasan · Answer

2 times i tried running through some online sites... now 3rd time im going to try through a DVD, i bought one DVD for learning hindi... hoping for the best :P

Hirendra Sisodiya · Answer

try again karthik....... hindi is sweet language.

Karthikeyan Anbarasan · Answer

haha great sam... you know one thing... im from south india and i dnt know Hindi... Most of the guys from Tamil Nadu(State) dont speak hindi...

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Oh but Karthik, you are expected to speak Hindi like a native but I can just say I am an American. At least I already know a few Hindi words like snaps and fresher. Right?

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Karthik is probably right! Also, it is probably easy to learn when you live in the Country. I am working (not really) to teech Hindi to my son (Neel) but he can't. But now he has visited INDIA 3 times, he kind of understands. But good news is, almost everybody, who is in IT (specifically programmers), do speak good enough English so you would have no problem. Indian culture is much larger and has a wider scope of languages, local cultures and slangs. If I go to a different state, I would not be able to speak or understand. Even, I go to a local village if I am not from there, it will be difficult for me to understand. Keep in mind, the culture is thousands years old but it was more like small tribes in ancient times and every tribe developed it's own mini-culture and local language. But

Karthikeyan Anbarasan · Answer

Sam, learning hindi is a bit tough task... i tried it couple of times but failed :(

Mahesh Chand · Answer

After first day or two, everything is back to normal now. It's 6:46 AM now and I woke up at 6:00 AM. But yes, if you are not used to, it takes couple of days to adjust. May next year, we a few key members USA will come to INDIA for the Summit. Also, we will plan a Summit in USA soon. Thanks!

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Maybe I need to start learning Hindi for next year. How is the time difference? You are young, Mahesh; I assume you have not had a problem adjusting to the time difference.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

There are 100s of types of spices if not thousands. For Indian, when you say, spicy, they assume, you meant "hot". There is only couple of "hot" spices and one of them is hot chilly pepper. For non Indians, who are not used to any other spices, a non-hot spice can taste pretty "hot" or so called "spicy".

Sam Hobbs · Answer

In India, do spicy foods have many types of spices or are they just hot with no other spices? Well I am being a little sarcastic and we should discuss that in another thread but note that I did try to start a similar discussion about Curry. Many people say spicy when they actually just mean hot. I hope people in India use many spices, not just hot ones.

Mayur Gujrathi · Answer

Welcome Sir

Suthish Nair · Answer

Enjoy and best wishes... Also enjoy some spice foods.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Thanks everybody. I am at NOIDA. Flight was good. Hectic but not bad. Got the Internet working. Will keep you posted on various activities. Tomorrow plan to go see the place where we are planning the Summit.

Karthikeyan Anbarasan · Answer

Thats good news mahesh...

Sam Hobbs · Answer

Thank you for keeping us informed. I assume you are over the big pond (Atlantic Ocean) now. Please have fun. I don't know how long such a trip takes; my guess is that you will arrive approximately noon in India.

Raja Krishnamurthy · Answer

Have fun Mahesh :-)

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