The frenetic Silicon Valley of India just got a luxurious new place to chill. You can read about it in the new Mar/Apr issue of Dealmaker magazine.

There’s no getting around it: Traveling to Bangalore is nuts. A subtropical retirement town that blew up overnight into one of the world’s great technology hubs, this metropolis of 6 million embodies everything exhilarating, and maddening, about doing business in the subcontinent today.

Eye-watering smog, 3 a.m. traffic jams and jaywalking cows? Sure. But the city is also home to a $23 billion information-technology industry. And it now has a stylish boutique hotel, Ista, specifically designed to preserve the sanity of foreign dealmakers.

Opened by Ashok Khanna the Cornell grad behind the famed Ananda Spa in the Himalayas, Ista brings some of the same blissed-out vibe to Bangalore, except with full Wi-Fi, a 24-hour business center and sleek boardrooms wired up with all the latest Indo-gadgetry.

Ista is like a five-star spa for guys who don’t do spas in a place they can really use one. Just spent three hours stuck on the Ring Road getting back from the Infosys campus? After an Ayurvedic massage in the recreation center and a couple of icy Kingfishers by the waterfall at the chic rooftop bar, you’ll be amazed how unbothered the ordeal left you.

Take a dip under the rustling banyan trees in the sprawling, granite-lined heated pool. Or simply soak up the spectacular view of lake Ulsoor from the private garden of your suite. Ista is the Sanskrit word for sacred space.

It’s a rather unusual name for a business hotel (for the same reason you don’t see a lot of Mount Sinai Four Seasons), but when it comes to Ista, and Bangalore, somehow the moniker fits.

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