BA, Lufthansa, or emirates....if cost is no concern, stay at taj west end. if it is, consider the goldfinch. both are within 20 min commute of IISc....food, where to begin? considering you'll get good nawabi/muglai food all over india, make sure too try as many ofthe respective cuisines of kerala/mangalore/chettinad/ andhra, which are widely available and authentically rendered.

there is a sport called jallikattu in Tamil nadu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallikattu, and there are cognate traditions around southern india..so much for iberian boldness if you see what these guys endevour to do!

if you've got more than the average amount of money to spend on a place in a large apartment complex where people don't know each other, and are generally from different parts of india, and your landlord bought the place as an investment and lives elsewhere, a girl can have a different guy over every night and not be bothered by her neighbours. These types of apartment complexes are not uncommon at all in bangalore, pune, hyd, and not least chennai. all depends on the neighbourhood. bombay housing societies are close knit and are usually long standing, in the bpo boomtowns theres a lot of anonymity. half the landlords live in the gulf or the USA. The buildings are usually in an upmarket area near the "downtown" , or in the outskirts where the major office parks are situated..