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Bangalore Breeze
 
Vol. 2 Issue 2 – Mar. 2007

In this Issue

In the Breeze
Books for expats
Bangalore Buzz
Q & A
Medical Tourism
About Us

 

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About Us

Bangalore Breeze is a collection of personal experiences of expats. KC Comal is the Chillibreeze expat ‘reporter from the field’.

 

 

About KC Comal

KC Comal with children

KC refuses to limit herself to one label. Among the many hats she wears are: Full time mom, part time writer, teacher, chef, art collector, gardener, quilter and extremely good vacationer. She has lived in Northern California for close to 20 years. After two decades in Silicon Valley her husband will be working from Bangalore. They have two children, a 12 year old daughter and an 8 year old son.

    

 

In the Breeze

Over the last few months we've received a flood of emails from curious mothers asking about, school, play options, and just general questions about what life will be like for their family in Bangalore. Keep sending your questions, because next month KC will be focusing on YOU! Write to us.

— Chillibreeze

 

  Q & A's from readers
 

I have been answering most of the emails directly, and am not including any in the newsletter this month. Just some clarifications though. I am not at all qualified to answer questions on visa issues. You would need to talk to the Indian consulate in your country about your visa needs. So my apologies, but, I cannot reply to any emails about visas and residencies, other than what our experience was at the FRRO, and observations like that. Most of the questions are from worried parents, what will the schools be like, what will life over there be like, and I hope that I have tried to give you an idea of the latter through the newsletter. I am happy to answer specific questions, so please don’t apologize about writing to ask if we get lox flavored cream cheese here (we don’t).

As for schools and the quality of children’s lives here, I think I will take another break from the newsletter next month, and have it be a child-focused issue. So please feel free to send me specific questions over the next few weeks, they will be used for the April newsletter.

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If you have a question, email KC

 

Bangalore Buzz:

I couldn’t resist. I know I said I would write about books and not my usual family update, but we have been having such fun lately. We stumbled onto Lumbini gardens a few weekends ago. Perched on the side of the Ring Road to Hebbal is a murky green lake with what looked like some boating options. We wandered over one Saturday morning, and found that the litter-free lake has pedal boats and aqua cycles for hire. There is a jet ski that you can go for a two minute ride on, and we spent a pleasant couple of hours there racing each other on the pedal boats while our thighs screamed in protest. There are a few food vendors there, a little bouncy house and some kiddie mechanical rides. Rides were inexpensive and since the drive there was only about 20 minutes, we made a note to keep this in mind for a short evening outing. Parents of little ones to note: their feet don’t reach the pedal, so really, you are going to do all the work. Lumbini Gardens is on Nagawara lake near Hebbal.

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Concerts, Clinics and Bangalore Bandhs (hmm... wondering what a bandh is ?)

  

 

  Ten "Indian Reads" for Expats
 

A friend recently asked me to recommend a good Bollywood movie. My mind boggled. Did I want to impress her with the serious film making in India or did I want to dazzle her with musical extravaganzas that make the headlines? It was hard but finally my recommendation was Lagaan, the hit movie of a few years ago about big, bad British Raj officers being outwitted by simple but wily villagers in a game of cricket. The movie had everything Bollywood offers: melodrama, swaggering villains, blushing village belles, the hero who saves the village, and of course characters breaking out into song and dance at the drop of a hat. Plus it comes with English sub-titles.

That got me thinking about the number of times I have been asked to recommend a book about India...

click to read my list of 10 books

 

Highlight Medical Tourism

Want to learn more about health options? Buy the recently published Medical Tourism: a Bangalore Perspective

medical tourism Bangalore

Want to learn more about Indian Art? Buy this beautiful ebook: The World of Indian Murals and Paintings


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