Started in 2007, this is a series of quar­terly lec­tures this year on sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy and the inter­net in India. The lec­tures, under the ban­ner of the Yahoo! Big Thinkers India series, bring together acad­e­mia, sci­en­tists, the cor­po­rate world and the media.
The speak­ers are acclaimed experts from the Yahoo! Inter­na­tional team. They bring with them the […]

The prob­lem: Over the last 4 years, Janet and her vol­un­teers at treesfor­free have planted 12,896 trees across Ban­ga­lore City to restore the van­ish­ing tree cover. All in an old Maruti car. Now the car has bro­ken down. And the plant­ing has stopped. But the tree felling con­tin­ues… and with it, the global warm­ing, failed […]

A few adven­tur­ous and cre­ative friends have got­ten together to bring some sun­shine into your oth­er­wise ignored or empty bal­cony or terrace! 

The folks at My Sunny Bal­cony (MSB) can sug­gest how to trans­form an empty for­lorn space into a ver­i­ta­ble green heaven…

While trav­el­ling in Kalimpong last year, sit­ting in a local café hav­ing an evening snack I came across a rather nice look­ing glossy travel mag­a­zine. I was rather sur­prised when I saw that it was pub­lished out of Sikkim. Both the con­tent and the pho­tographs were of bet­ter qual­ity than a lot of other travel […]

When Shankar called say­ing he was going to the Wildlife Res­cue and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (WRRC) and would I like to go along, I jumped at the oppor­tu­nity. The last time I went was with Usha and it’s been a while. 
A cou­ple of reha­bil­i­tated jack­als in their own enclo­sure
It’s always amaz­ing to see Saleem at work : […]

The Ban­ga­lore Ultra is on Decem­ber 16 for those of you who want to reg­is­ter for it. It will be held at Hesaraghatta and the dis­tances are 26, 52, 78 and 104 kms. It is appar­ently the first time the ultra is being held in Ban­ga­lore (India?) and there are a few very brave souls […]

This is an effort to increase and encour­age rural tourism and sounds like a pretty good idea by Rural Zing.
Accord­ing to the tag line, it’s “an Ini­tia­tive to con­nect urban and rural econ­o­my”. 
They have day long trip start­ing from Ban­ga­lore on Sat­ur­days and Sun­days. 
Con­tact for details:
Mobile: 9886201103
Email — reservation@ruralzing.com
You need to send in […]

This is quite amaz­ing! Instead of sit­ting around and com­plain­ing, this group is going around Chen­nai fix­ing pot­holes. 
We def­i­nitely need a few Ban­ga­lore­ans to get onto this. God knows, that after the recent rains, there will be many pot­holes that need fix­ing. Inter­est­ingly, any­one can take the lead and start it off. 
The Chen­nai I-Fix Initiative