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A techie community of around two hundred Indians stationed in Milwaukee suddenly finds itself under a siege. On a fateful Friday, a cyclonic snowstorm Super Susan is breaking winter records outside their windows. And beyond, somewhere in the inky darkness, a serial killer who targets immigrants is on the loose. An indiscreet TV journalist has already informed him that almost the entire community resides within a threeblock radius in downtown Milwaukee. Two young ...
Bangalore was the name of a torpedo used for `clearing the beaches during the D-Day landings,' says www.firstworldwar.com. "Designed by Captain McClintock (of the British Army Bengal, Bombay and Madras Sappers and Miners) in 1912, so-called Bangalore Torpedoes were used as a means of exploding booby traps and barricades left over from the Boer and Russo-Japanese Wars." As a neologism, `to be Bangalored' means, to suffer "a layoff, often systemic, ...
Over twelve thousand foreigners (that is, more than half the expatriate population in the country) now live in Bangalore. They hail from diverse backgrounds, practise various professions, and in this global city, which still retains traces of its small-town ethos, they are discovering previously unimaginable possibilities.So what exactly do they seek in Bangalore and do they find it there? On what levels do they interact with the local people? And, how ...