Sadly, today is my last day in New York. Thanks to everyone for your wonderful suggestions for what to do and eat while I've been here. I've had some magnificent soul food at Sylvia's in Harlem, sang karaoke in Korea Town, been to the Met and MoMA, and done a spot of shopping in SoHo. I am really disappointed to be leaving... a feeling tempered only by the happy fact that tomorrow I'll be speaking at Google in San Francisco.On Friday evening I was lucky to be able to visit Columbia University's world-famous Journalism School as a guest of the South Asian Journalists Association and Professor Sree Sreenivasan (who happens to be a technology geek too). I was in conversation with well-known American science journalist, Unmesh Kher (above), who asked me about such things as GM food in India, the drone-like reputation of Indian engineers and why Indians prefer academic pursuits to sports. The audience came up with some brilliantly clever questions too. I was particularly thrilled to be joined by the venerable Alan Kotok, formerly of Science, who travelled all the way from Washington DC to be there, and proved why science editors are the nicest people in the world.
Just a reminder that if you are in New York and would like an exclusive copy of the book before it's released in the US, then head down to Book Culture on West 112th off Broadway. And in the meantime, please do join the Facebook group for Geek Nation (268 fans and counting... they make it hip to be a square!).
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