Travelling to Jog Falls As part of my previous post I have already written what it takes to go from Bangalore to Jog Falls. We stayed at Sagar in a hotel called Green Embassy, whose review I have given in another blog post. If you wish to know more about the hotel please click here.Continue reading “The Jog Falls travel experience”
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The Green Embassy, Sagara – Why you must check out this hotel when you visit Jog Falls
Introduction My cousin arrived from United States of America and I had a chance to decide to have a backpack trip with him. It was a short decision to make and I had to hurry to make the best use of the time I had with him. For over 40 years I’ve never visited JogContinue reading “The Green Embassy, Sagara – Why you must check out this hotel when you visit Jog Falls”
The CET condurum
There has been a recent decision by the government of Karnataka to abolish the Common entrance exam for private colleges and also remove any cap on the maximum fees that can be charged by these private colleges. However to mitigate the possible consequences the government also states that there would be a governing committee orContinue reading “The CET condurum”
The new Nokia Lumia 900 review from The Verge website. Great phone, but software has to catch up a lot !!
The Verge put up a crisp review of the new Nokia Lumia 900 which was released by AT&T recently in the USA. One can compare this to the Samsung Galaxy Note in terms of dimensions. However this has a clear black display and not an AMOLED and the focus point about this phone isContinue reading “The new Nokia Lumia 900 review from The Verge website. Great phone, but
software has to catch up a lot !!”
Why you must not vote for BJP again?
Agreed we have seen resort politics before but those were not for dissidence. Those were to give better opportunities to MLAs in some other party other than the ruling party. Also, its always a known fact in politics that one could always be looking for an opportunity to knock the ruling party down by hookContinue reading “Why you must not vote for BJP again?”
Pictures speak a thousand words : Goodbye Koramangala, goodbye Swift.
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The phenomenon – part one
I always wanted to pen down this story, but time was at premium. It finally finds its way into this blog. This is not a story of a place. Its an article about the phenomenon called Koramangala and my gratitude for a chance to breathe, live and loathe it. The year was 1983. But weContinue reading “The phenomenon – part one”
Palace road widening, GIM investments and the impacts
The road widening hooligans are at it yet again. This time they are aiming to chop off full grown trees alongside the palace road from both cauvery theatre side as well as from TV tower side. Reason is they want to make it a 10-lane road leading to the already glorious (for the wrong reasons)Continue reading “Palace road widening, GIM investments and the impacts”
the Recommendation disease on linkedin
Most of you who use linked in would have definitely come across the raging recommendation disease. Note what I said just now. The issue is not with recommendation, but its actually with cross recommendation or the I-recommend-you-and-you-recommend-me-back syndrome. Here is an example from one of the people I have worked with which I didContinue reading “the Recommendation disease on linkedin”
Seasons change, as Bengaluru embraces Summer
(image source: from here) This February has seen some unusual temperature variations. Bengaluru was ultra chilly at 12-13 degrees C. Added to this were few virii in the air, and everyone were down with viral fevers, cough, sore throat and other typical Bengaluru syndrome. My case was similar and trying out different modes ofContinue reading “Seasons change, as Bengaluru embraces Summer”