India’s a huge country, and Bangalore is toward the south. It’s a long way to the country’s disputed border with Pakistan, a dispute that has helped trigger wars and terrorist attacks. Based on the security measures that were standard around Bangalore, however, you’d guess the conflict was right next door.
At the hotel we stayed at, security was understandably thorough (within the last 10 years in the country, hotels became a setting for an unfortunate series of attacks in Mumbai). Staff inspected the trunk of any cars as they arrived; someone else held a large mirror to check the underside of the car. Guest’s bags were put through a security screen, and you couldn’t walk into the hotel without going through a metal detector.
Security at the John F. Welch Technology Center was even tighter. In Shanghai, we simply walked up to the gate, waited for our contact to show up, and were handed badges. Here, we encountered the same bag screening and metal detector as in the hotel, but there was an added step. Every visitor had to step into a closet-sized booth and get hit by a series of puffs of air. The air was then drawn in and scanned for the presence of chemicals—which ones, precisely, weren’t disclosed. But the door of the booth wouldn’t open until the system had given everyone’s personal aroma a once-over.
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