Tarun Dua

Bay Area is like a second home to me I guess. Lots of people I know now live in the Bay Area. So this short visit on official business to San Mateo/San Jose I actually seem to be having fun after some 3 weeks of day and night slogging for the "cause".

So lets see where else I lived
Yamunanagar: The town where I was born at the Waryam Singh Hospital, my parents still live there and a few friends from high school. I guess I spent almost half of my life at this place. I considered multiple times to setup like something like a small town ISP and 'retire' here for the rest of my life and times, but the lure of excitement life outside this town has held me back as yet.
Chandigarh: The retired person's town ;-) holds almost no attraction for me.
Delhi: The number of my friends in Delhi is getting less and less by as people either move out to the US/Canada/UK or Bangalore/Pune. However I had the maximum amount of fun in Delhi.

Bay Area: All the great places here including San-Francisco, San-Mateo, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Santa Clara ( not been much of a San Jose person). The feeling of being there when you are at the valley, whether listening to youtube starting to happen or numerous other startups on virgin ideas. The great indian food ( though the ingredients in food are a bit bland ) in the bay area, innumerable friends acquired here during the previous stint or the ones who moved to Bay Area. Bay Area makes me feel at home even during this short visit here. I am loving it.

Pune: Haven't had much chance to explore Pune, as I have been mostly slogging hard to kind of try and help do my bit to keep the new trend of Silicon Valley like startups solely based out of Pune turning it into atleast a mini-ecosystem for startups away from the real Silicon Valley. Bangalore with its heavy outsourcing industry is also fostering a lot of exciting new idea arbitrage startups and even innovative startups in NMS/Mobile. However the feel to Koregaon Park with its Palo Alto's California Ave like buzz has something good to it. Maybe I'll make Pune my home after being a trendsetter, maybe it is just an "experiment" doomed to failure.

Feels good to be connected and rooted in different parts of the world at the same time.