Cogito Ergo Sum

As the popular band Green Day puts it, It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right! I hope you had the time of your life!   Our trip to the Scotland of the Indian subcontinent, Kodagu, was something similar. It was full of unexpected encounters. While some were good, the others were disappointing. On the whole, the entire plan was another addition to the innumerable memories we have from our previous tours. Deciding the place and the dates turned out to be a major challenge in itself, keeping everyone's comfort zone in mind. With a few compromises here and there, the second weekend of July was set as the D-days. Locking the destination turned out to be a hurdle bigger than we'd imagined because most people were apprehensive about the rains. Letting nature decide our fates, we set off to Coorg on the decided dates. Off We Go! The journey to the destination started from three different places. While 3 people started off from Bengaluru,...

The government of the state of Delhi recently implemented a new rule, that was run on a trial basis for the first 15 days of the month of January. This particular experiment has been criticised as well as commended by various sections of the society. Here's my analysis of the  Odd-Even Rule for the vehicles that was introduced to reduce the levels of pollution that have increased alarmingly in the past few years. According to the WHO survey in 2010, the Particulate Matter levels in Delhi were 286 and 153 for PM(10) and PM(2.5) respectively. The levels were 22 and 16 in London around the same time, according to the survey reports. When the same survey was conducted in December 2014 and January 2015, the PM(2.5) levels were found to be 225, whereas in Beijing it was 95. A major step had to be taken to reduce these pollution levels. During the last week of December 2015, the Odd Even rule for the vehicles of Delhi was suggested in the parliament. According to the rule, the veh...

2015 ended on a happy note because most university exams ended by the last week of December. 2016 had to be given a flamboyant start. The plans and discussions for this had begun way back in November and by the time the first day of January had arrived, a conclusion was finally arrived at. The Wanderlusts of the 2014 batch of Sri Aurobindo PU College, Shimoga had ticked off Doodhsagar from their bucket list of places to travel to. The next destination decided was Tadiandmol, the highest peak in the Coorg district of Karnataka. Standing at 1,750m above the sea level, this particular peak was a major attraction because even though it stood that tall, the walk to the top was supposed to be an easy one, at least according to what we all read on the internet! So, it was decided that Tadiandmol was going to be the next place where we would go, we would see and we would conquer! On the chilly night of the first of January, 14 of them left the Shimoga Bus Stand in a hired Tempo Traveller ...