Mumbai - Travel in India By Al Kirkpatrick, CISO for Firestorm’s The Kirkpatrick Report August 18, 2011 Mumbai I have a 17 hour layover in Mumbai and am staying at a hotel near the airport.   I hadn’t planned on an update from here, but a couple of things have caught my attention and I thought warranted a quick update. Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is India’s second largest city.   Traffic here is always ten times worse than in the more southern cities where I have been the last ten days.   Today, however, seemed to set an all-time record as it took me 1-1/2 hours to travel approximately two miles from the airport to the hotel. Protests in India Apparently, Mumbai, like many other India cities is facing traffic jams caused by mass protests (all appear to be calm), about a social activist named Anna Hazare (male).   There is an act before the I...

Wrapping up China and on to Bengaluru (Bangalore), India By Al Kirkpatrick, CISO for Firestorm’s The Kirkpatrick Report Thursday, August 11, 2011 Wrapping up China New country, new time zone, my body clock is now thoroughly confused, but other than that all continues to go well.  Before jumping into business in India, a few summary remarks about China that I held until out of the country. Clearly, my first introduction to mainland China was a very positive experience from a business and personal perspective.   The urban infrastructure is excellent, the people are great to work with, although English language is much more of a challenge there than in India where the country has a hundred-year head start. When China’s next generation hits the work force, because English is now a core subject at all levels of education, it will be a business outsourcing force to be re...