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  • Garuda shopping mall, MG road, downtown Bangalore..BANGALORE.Bangalore also known as Bengaluru is the capital of Southern state of Karnataka, and is Asia's fastest growing cosmopolitan city. Most of the high-tech companies have their offices here, and view Bangalore as 'Byte-Basket' of India. Bangalore was once called the pensioners' paradise but that quickly changed since IT companies set-up their offices in Bangalore making it the third most populous city in India with an estimated population of 5.8 million people (2001 census)..Bangalore houses some of the most recognised companies IT companies, making it India's leading Information Technology exporter and popularly known as the 'Silicon Valley of India". Apart from IT, Bangalore is home to leading and well-recognized organisations working on defence, aerospace, telecommunication, agricultural and science research and development. ..KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. .Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • Embassy Golf Link Business Park, Domlur, Bangalore. Houses Yahoo India.BANGALORE.Bangalore also known as Bengaluru is the capital of Southern state of Karnataka, and is Asia's fastest growing cosmopolitan city. Most of the high-tech companies have their offices here, and view Bangalore as 'Byte-Basket' of India. Bangalore was once called the pensioners' paradise but that quickly changed since IT companies set-up their offices in Bangalore making it the third most populous city in India with an estimated population of 5.8 million people (2001 census)..Bangalore houses some of the most recognised companies IT companies, making it India's leading Information Technology exporter and popularly known as the 'Silicon Valley of India". Apart from IT, Bangalore is home to leading and well-recognized organisations working on defence, aerospace, telecommunication, agricultural and science research and development. ..KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. .Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India: A filling and sealing machine is used for the first time since the company started this business, to fill, seal, cap and label the plastic phials. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • ALSTOM markings as seen on-track at the Baiyappanahalli depot station in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • An employee is seen working on ALSTOM's Relay Rack in the Signalling Equipment Room (SER) at the depot and primary station, Baiyappanahalli, in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011..Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • An employee is seen working on ALSTOM's Relay Rack in the Signalling Equipment Room (SER) at the depot and primary station, Baiyappanahalli, in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011..Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • ALSTOM employees clean and move MJ81 - Intech Point Machines in the warehouse of ALSTOM's site project office near to the depot station Baiyappanahalli in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • The SUS (Service Unit Support) team sits in the MOC (Management Operational Centre) room. KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • Mindtree + Getronics, - Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.Nestled in a green zone, aptly named Global Village in Bangalore, the Mindtree-Getronics provides a 24x7 solution. Mindtree, the Indian associates of Getronics have their headquarters in Bangalore and branch offices in Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune. Mindtree is a young company, "young at heart, " says Parthasarathy, the President and CEO - Infrastructure Management Services. .93% of Mindtree's revenues are generated from outside the country.  Mindtree provides application and maintenance for Getronics. The 350 odd team of IT engineers work 8.5 hours a day, and an extra 30 minutes is allocated for the shift transfer. The usual day for a consultant begins with checking the emails, filling time sheets etc. The employees working at Mindtree-Gentronics work on issues generated as legends and work on tickets (both major and minor tickets). A minor ticket can take an average of 30 mins to close whereas a major ticket can be closed between 4 hours to 2 days. "The work mainly involves communication with Getronics and co-ordination with Mindtree team here in India," says Sreekanth B.G. from the DCIS (Data Centre and Infrastructure Support) team and further adds, "fridays and weekends are less hectic as we have less tickets, we plan for joytronics, our in-house fun team where we plan for games like cricket and football and celebrate our colleagues' birthdays etc."."Working in Mindtree-Getronics is great experience, individual attention given to us by our seniors and enables us in rapid professional growth, says Souharda Rudrappa. Sreekanth confirms and adds,"...moreover, you grow with the company that is growing as well...and that's bound to happen when you have good leadership.".Mindtree works on the concept of C.L.A.S.S. - Caring. Learning. Achieving. Sharing. Social Responsibility and the people working at Mindtree-Getronics strongly agree with the concept. The Mindtree logo was designed in collaboration with the
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  • October 11th, 2009. Yael Tal (in turquoise), an Israeli traveller who spends about half a year annually in Bangalore to pursue her Indian classical dance (Kuchipudi Dance) dreams, frequently visits Rabbi Rivkin and the Chabad Lubavitch of Bangalore, Karnataka, India, to be closer to her Judaism. ..Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  Factory workers push a trolley of freshly made indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  Ready for packing, the indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. In each phial contains 10ml of ink, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  A factory worker mans the machine as the phials of ink are sealed. It is the first year that a machine is used as all this used to be done manually since 1962. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  Factory workers manually check the tightness of the caps after phials of ink pass through a machine to fill, seal, cap and label the plastic phials. It is the first year that a machine is used as all this used to be done manually since 1962. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  The indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962. The same ink has also been supplied to many other countries, including Turkey, Cambodia, Sierra Leona, Mongolia, Bhutan, Nepal, Papua New Guinea and Maldives.  Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  A factory worker adjusts the labels as phials of ink get labeled by a machine. It is the first year that a machine is used as all this used to be done manually since 1962. .Indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections are being labeled. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  A factory worker places phials of ink on the conveyor belt of the labeling machine. It is the first year that a machine is used as all this used to be done manually since 1962. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  Factory workers manually check the tightness of the caps after phials of ink pass through a machine to fill, seal, cap and label the plastic phials. It is the first year that a machine is used as all this used to be done manually since 1962. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • ALSTOM's Bangalore employees working in the Delhi Platform Room in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • ALSTOM's employees at work amongst wall clocks showing multiple timezones in the office in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • An employee works on ALSTOM's ASCV in the Signalling Equipment Room (SER) at the depot and primary station, Baiyappanahalli, in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011..Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • An employee is seen working on ALSTOM's Relay Rack in the Signalling Equipment Room (SER) at the depot and primary station, Baiyappanahalli, in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011..Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • An employee is seen working on ALSTOM's Relay Rack in the Signalling Equipment Room (SER) at the depot and primary station, Baiyappanahalli, in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011..Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • An employee is seen working on ALSTOM's STDC in the Signalling Equipment Room (SER) at the Baiyappanahalli depot and primary station in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011..Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • ALSTOM's engineers and employees (in purple hardhats) discuss the project onboard a stationary train in the Baiyappanahalli depot station in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • An ALSTOM worker walks near the Third Line Power Supply rails (yellow rails, left) in the Baiyappanahalli depot station in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • ALSTOM's S-Bond cables are seen on the tracks just before the Beacon and DLR at the depot and primary station, Baiyappanahalli, in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011..Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • ALSTOM employees and engineers pose for a group portrait in the warehouse of ALSTOM's site project office near to the depot station Baiyappanahalli in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • An employee of ALSTOM checks and records details of cables stored in the warehouse of ALSTOM's site project office near to the depot station Baiyappanahalli in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • The SUS (Service Unit Support) team sits in the MOC (Management Operational Centre) room. KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
    Suzanne20110513-Mindtree-Bangalore-0...JPG
  • Mindtree + Getronics, - Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.Nestled in a green zone, aptly named Global Village in Bangalore, the Mindtree-Getronics provides a 24x7 solution. Mindtree, the Indian associates of Getronics have their headquarters in Bangalore and branch offices in Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune. Mindtree is a young company, "young at heart, " says Parthasarathy, the President and CEO - Infrastructure Management Services. .93% of Mindtree's revenues are generated from outside the country.  Mindtree provides application and maintenance for Getronics. The 350 odd team of IT engineers work 8.5 hours a day, and an extra 30 minutes is allocated for the shift transfer. The usual day for a consultant begins with checking the emails, filling time sheets etc. The employees working at Mindtree-Gentronics work on issues generated as legends and work on tickets (both major and minor tickets). A minor ticket can take an average of 30 mins to close whereas a major ticket can be closed between 4 hours to 2 days. "The work mainly involves communication with Getronics and co-ordination with Mindtree team here in India," says Sreekanth B.G. from the DCIS (Data Centre and Infrastructure Support) team and further adds, "fridays and weekends are less hectic as we have less tickets, we plan for joytronics, our in-house fun team where we plan for games like cricket and football and celebrate our colleagues' birthdays etc."."Working in Mindtree-Getronics is great experience, individual attention given to us by our seniors and enables us in rapid professional growth, says Souharda Rudrappa. Sreekanth confirms and adds,"...moreover, you grow with the company that is growing as well...and that's bound to happen when you have good leadership.".Mindtree works on the concept of C.L.A.S.S. - Caring. Learning. Achieving. Sharing. Social Responsibility and the people working at Mindtree-Getronics strongly agree with the concept. The Mindtree logo was designed in collaboration with the
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  • Sharadh Manjittaya, 25.25-year-old Sharadh Manjittaya is a Bangalorian who always wanted to work for MindTree. "There is a hype associated with MindTree in college, they have a reputation and the best aspire to work for them,"says Sharadh who couldn't find a job during the campus recruitment, he worked for two years and a half and waited for the right job posting... and finally got a job at MindTree. "I had read Shubroto Baghchi's book (The Professional) and was very ispired," he says and adds, "...this is one place I aspired to work, and here I am - working with the professionals" adds Sharadh. .Trained as an electronics engineer, Sharadh found it easy to fit into the MindTree Getonics work culture. He handles LINUS server, and his role is to learn new technology from the team, document the same and teach the same to his colleagues.  "Learning and teaching has become a major job role for me, and am enjoying it," says Sharadh..Sharadh is a singer. He started singing when he was a young boy, even attended Indian Classical Music classes but couldn't continue with it regularly. Sharadh sang Kannada song, Mungaru Maley (first monsoon rain) and won the first prize at the Music contest.  ..KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. .Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  The complete product, ready for packing, the indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink, and if properly applied, can be used to mark a line on the finger of as many as 700 voters. This year, more ink will be used, as a line will be marked instead of a dot that has been used since 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  The complete product, ready for packing, the indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink, and if properly applied, can be used to mark a line on the finger of as many as 700 voters. This year, more ink will be used, as a line will be marked instead of a dot that has been used since 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  A factory worker manually hammers in the inner seal of the phials of indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  A factory worker manually hammers in the inner seal of the phials of indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  A factory worker adjusts the labels as phials of ink get labeled by a machine. It is the first year that a machine is used as all this used to be done manually since 1962. .Indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections are being labeled. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  A factory worker walks out of the filling unit with at tray of phials of indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  Factory workers manually check the tightness of the caps after phials of ink pass through a machine to fill, seal, cap and label the plastic phials. It is the first year that a machine is used as all this used to be done manually since 1962. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  A factory worker adjusts the labels as phials of ink get labeled by a machine. It is the first year that a machine is used as all this used to be done manually since 1962. .Indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections are being labeled. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  A factory worker adjusts the labels as phials of ink get labeled by a machine. It is the first year that a machine is used as all this used to be done manually since 1962. .Indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections are being labeled. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India: Factory workers arrange the plastic phials that contain 10ml of indelible ink on trays to be sent to the sealing section. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India: 15ml capacity phials that contain 10ml of indelible ink move along the conveyor belt after filling, sealing, capping and labeling. .These indelible ink will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial, if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India: Factory workers arrange the plastic phials that contain 10ml of indelible ink on trays to be sent to the sealing section. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India: Factory workers arrange the plastic phials that contain 10ml of indelible ink on trays to be sent to the sealing section. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India: Factory workers arrange the plastic phials that contain 10ml of indelible ink on trays to be sent to the sealing section. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • ALSTOM's employees and visitors are seen, through a glass, in the reception area of the office in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • ALSTOM's employees working in the Bangalore Platform Room in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • ALSTOM's Bangalore employees working in the Delhi Platform Room in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • ALSTOM's employees (in purple hardhats) walk along the tracks, lined by the Third Line Power Supply rails (yellow rails), while some others work on the LED signalling lights and MJ81 - Intech Point Machines, at the Baiyappanahalli depot station in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • An ALSTOM employee (in purple hardhat) fixes the connectivity on the MJ81 (Intech) Point Machines at the Baiyappanahalli depot station in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • An employee is seen working on ALSTOM's 2 out-of 3 (2oo3) Platform ATC in the Signalling Equipment Room (SER) at the depot and primary station, Baiyappanahalli, in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011..Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • An employee is seen working on ALSTOM's Relay Rack in the Signalling Equipment Room (SER) at the depot and primary station, Baiyappanahalli, in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011..Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • An employee is seen working on ALSTOM's Relay Rack in the Signalling Equipment Room (SER) at the depot and primary station, Baiyappanahalli, in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011..Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • Employees work on ALSTOM's STDC in the Signalling Equipment Room (SER) at the Baiyappanahalli depot and primary station in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011..Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • Railway workers and ALSTOM's workers (in purple hardhats) walk by the Third Line Power Supply rails (yellow rails) in the Baiyappanahalli depot station in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • The SUS (Service Unit Support) team sits in the MOC (Management Operational Centre) room. KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • The SUS (Service Unit Support) team sits in the MOC (Management Operational Centre) room. KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • Akilan Vijayarangam ..22 year old Akilan Vijayarangam is from Chennai. He works under the first level support team and MOC (Management Operational Centre) wherein his work involves monitoring engineering screen and assigning tickets to relevant groups. Akilan works an average of 9 hours a day and plays badminton and Table Tennis with his bosses during spare time. He also represents his office Table Tennis team for various competitions.  "I am lucky I get to play with the big bosses, I get to have personal interaction with them - and they constantly encourage me not only for my professional development but also on the sports front," says Akilan. "They are very simple people, and do not have a concept of hierarchy" he laughingly adds...Akilan couldn't afford to pay his engineering college fees while he was studying Computer Science, but managed to get scholarships and complete his studies. " I won many accolades for my college for various sports events I participated, I do the same here... sports is very important for me, and MindTree appreciates it, and helps me realise my dreams, not just by sitting behind the computer but on sports arenas too." ..KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. .Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • video conference room, KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  The indelible ink and a plastic wand that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink, and if properly applied, can be used to mark a line on the finger of as many as 700 voters. This year, more ink will be used, as a line will be marked instead of a dot that has been used since 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  The indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962. The same ink has also been supplied to many other countries, including Turkey, Cambodia, Sierra Leona, Mongolia, Bhutan, Nepal, Papua New Guinea and Maldives.  Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  The complete product, ready for packing, the indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink, and if properly applied, can be used to mark a line on the finger of as many as 700 voters. This year, more ink will be used, as a line will be marked instead of a dot that has been used since 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  A factory worker manually hammers in the inner seal of the phials of indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  Factory workers push a trolley of freshly made indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  Factory workers push a trolley of freshly made indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  A factory worker manually hammers in the inner seal of the phials of indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  A factory worker manually hammers in the inner seal of the phials of indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  After inner sealing, phials of ink pass along the machine to be capped and labeled. It is the first year that a machine is used as all this used to be done manually since 1962. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  Ready for packing, the indelible ink that will be used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections. Each phial contains 10ml of ink, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  Phials of ink get labeled by a machine to fill, seal, cap and label the plastic phials. It is the first year that a machine is used as all this used to be done manually since 1962. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  A filling and sealing machine is used for the first time since the company started this business, to fill, seal, cap and label the plastic phials. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India: Factory workers arrange the plastic phials that contain 10ml of indelible ink on trays to be sent to the sealing section. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • A group of ALSTOM employees (in purple hardhats) discuss the project as they work on the LED Signals at the Baiyappanahalli depot station in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • ALSTOM's employees (in purple hardhats) walk along the tracks, lined by the Third Line Power Supply rails (yellow rails), while some others work on the LED signalling lights and MJ81 - Intech Point Machines, at the Baiyappanahalli depot station in Bangalore, Karnataka, India on 10th March 2011. .Photo by Suzanne Lee/Abaca Press
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  • KPN company, Getronics, has off shored multiple business units to the Indian company, Mind Tree in Bangalore, the 'Silicon Valley of India', in the state of Karnataka, India. Photo by Suzanne Lee for Hollandse Hoogte.
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  • 30th March 2009, Mysore, Karnataka, India:  Factory workers manually check the tightness of the caps after phials of ink pass through a machine to fill, seal, cap and label the plastic phials. It is the first year that a machine is used as all this used to be done manually since 1962. .Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.   Photo by Suzanne Lee/The National
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  • Rebbetzin Noa Rivkin carries her 10 month old son, Mendi, upstairs in the Chabad Lubavitch center in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. She migrated to India with her husband, Rabbi Tzvi Rivkin, a few years ago to set up a Jewish outreach center. As a certified educator, she runs classes and programs to bring the Jews in India closer to Judaism.
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  • Rabbi Tzvi Rivkin prays while his wife, Noa Rivkin, tends to their infant son, Mendi in their residence based Chabad center in Bangalore, India.
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