Er, customer ser-what?

1. Tata Indicom Broadband: My home broadband connection wasn’t working for 2 months. I had good things to say about Tata Indicom / VSNL broadband in Bangalore. How they prove me wrong! One spell of rains and the cables snap. They take 2-3 weeks to get the cable to work...

Linux myths, lies and truth and why I like Debian

Before this blog starts to seem like a travel blog, let me post something I found immensely interesting and not related to travels and treks and such. Greg Kroah-Hartman’s keynote speech at this year’s OLS was about debunking myths, setting straight some truths and quashing lies about Linux, the OS....

Trip to the Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary (River Tern Lodges)

The Junglee group from Juniper went to a trip to the Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary, (or the River Tern Lodges as it’s now known) [link 2, map]. It’s a tiger reserve as well. Some statistics about the Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary are available. (When will I get to spot a tiger in...

Growling mother elephant at Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary - II

</embed> More growls... This female elephant is obviously protective about her calf. When we approached in our jeep towards her, she let out a growl that sounded like a wolf or a leopard. She even charged the jeep ahead of us. Keep the volume high to get all the sounds.</p>...

Growling mother elephant at Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary

</embed> This female elephant is obviously protective about her calf. When we approached in our jeep towards her, she let out a growl that sounded like a wolf or a leopard. She even charged the jeep ahead of us. Keep the volume high to get all the sounds.</p> Recorded at...

Why block entire blog sites?

Well, the Indian government has decided to block blogging sites in national interest. There apparently were many blogs criticizing the government after the Mumbai blasts. So the government decides to block off not just those blogs, but millions of other blogs which happen to exist on the same domain. Like...

Honnemardu trip

This is the same blog post I put up on the Junglee blog about our trip to Honnemardu last March. What’s a perfect start to a trip? A salsa dance performance by Team 5, 6, 7, 8. And that’s exactly how the fun started. As part of a recruitment event...

Trip to Coorg

The Route-7 gang from Juniper went for a weekend trip to Coorg in March. As promised, here’s a short blog post from whatever I can remember (it’s been a looong time). The rest will be said in multiples of a thousand words. A brief note about Route-7: this is the...

Quote on Reservations and Backward Classes

An awesome quote sent in by a friend: “India must be the only country in the world, where people fight to be called backward” Very apt, considering the recent trouble against reservations. <div class="blogger-post-footer"> <p>This is a post from http://log.amitshah.net/, licensed CC BY-SA. </div>

I am against reservations

“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime” - Anonymous This Sunday, (21st of May 2006), Vikram, Bahubali and I were on M. G. Road in Bangalore, out there for some shopping, when we...