Yesterday, I was in Mysore, giving a talk at the NIE.
The journey to Mysore was great – for the first time, I travelled by the Shatabdi First Class AC, and it was an thoroughly enjoyable experience – lots of room, carpeting, wide seats, efficient airconditioning, great food and good service. I wasn’t even aware of the fact that one can book this class of seat from Bangalore to Mysore – and I certainly will never travel by anything else again! 
Arrived on the dot of 1pm, and was collected by Viksit, headed for the NIE, where Kalyan was just winding up his talk on secure design of applications. He clearly had a good time with his talk, given the number of questions he got asked.
He also had the advantage of a pre-lunch crowd.
I did my talk on the Open Source Desktop [pdf], which seemed to have entertained and educated, but it was hard to tell with many of the post-lunch, high-temperature-afflicted faces. Every time I took a sip from my chilled coke (thanks, Viksit!), I could see the look of longing on their faces.
After I finished my main talk, I hit them with my real agenda – Students and Innovation [pdf], and that clearly hurt. My mailbox overfloweth with messages from students asking how they can fix their lives!