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).