{"id":302,"date":"2008-08-19T13:29:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T18:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2008\/08\/19\/indias-silicon-valley\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T15:39:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T20:39:16","slug":"indias-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2008\/08\/19\/indias-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived at Bangalore (now known as Bangaluru) this afternoon. Bangaluru is known as India&#8217;s Silicon valley and this my first time here. I am here for a conference (as described <a href=\"http:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2008\/08\/13\/heading-to-india\/\">here<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Bangalore is also on its way to becoming a word in the English language. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To be Bangalored is to have one&#8217;s job outsourced (and since Bangalore was one of the first Indian cities to be the center of a lot of outsourcing it received the dubious honor of becoming a verb). This phrase received a boost when John Kerry used it during the last US presidential contest. More about this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/yaleglobal.yale.edu\/display.article?id=5803\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I hope to blog more frequently since now I now have a more consistent internet access &#8211; something that has been difficult to find the past couple of days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived at Bangalore (now known as Bangaluru) this afternoon. Bangaluru is known as India&#8217;s Silicon valley and this my first time here. I am here for a conference (as described here). Incidentally, Bangalore is also on its way to becoming a word in the English language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,22,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}