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Rishi has jotted down all the references and steps needed to get a Voter ID in Bangalore, act now an get it painlessly. The last date for getting your name on the Electoral Rolls is 22 Feb, 2008. Use your rights and use it for Good.

That’s me in YEP 2006, thanks to Sujoy for this photograph. Everything in the tag list of this post was there :). Really an Awesome Party.

FOSS.IN is here again, going to be organized from Nov 24 to 26 at IISC, Bangalore. Register Now before you have to pay double the registration fee.

I always thought, only AIR and a few private music broadcasting companies own the public radio channels in India but after reading this…

http://www.asiawaves.net/india-fm-radio.htm

There are 11 FM Radio Stations in Bangalore and 12 in Delhi, can anybody believe that?

Today I saw finance Minister P. Chidambaram on TV saying the reservation that is already applied at various sectors has revamped southern states of India in a great way over last 45 years. Did he count how many DESERVING aspirants’ aspiration is being sabotaged every year? At least I don’t think so. What I believe is everybody in present government is blind and can not decipher what’s really going on. Why there are thousands of students, professionals, workers, homemakers, children, senior citizens are on the road these days protesting against the quota policy. This dirty politics is overshadowing the great Indian economical growth which is on it’s way. Now the reasons of Indian brain drain are quite obvious to understand. The controversial reservation policy is going to eat India’s best talent.

Youth for Equality

 Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo! with David Filo, visited Y! Bangalore with Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel and CFO Susan Decker.

Bangalore BarCamp was organised at Yahoo! Bangalore, a super whole-day Unconference with 150+ participation. For the uninitiated BarCamp was initiated by Ross Mayfield, Chris Messina and company in response to criticism of FooCamp which was started by Tim O’Reilly.
Here are the minutes:

Chris Messina who *works* on Flock and Tara Hunt of Riya talking on Microformats, explained it beautifully, it’s use for hCard and hCalender is simply awesome.

Chronology of Microformats

hCard Markup

Suman on NPL

The Social Engineering was at it’s utmost level ;), with wifi-for-free everybody was already blogging there. It was full of LJ’ers, BLUG’ers and Yahoo!’s.

And ofcourse it couldn’t be completed without hang out at Geoffrey’s.

Rafting at Savanadurga

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Savanadurga is a hill 67 kms away from Bangalore (India) off the Magadi road 12.919654° N 77.292881° E. It is a beautiful place surrounded with lots of greenery. It has rich medicinal value plants. It is also a house of deer, panthers, snakes and is a very popular place for bird watching.

Savanadurga hill is a great monolith rock of 1,020 feet with a circumference of 6 km. The hill rises to 1226 m above mean sea level and forms a part of the Deccan plateau. The hill is famous for a temple and is also believed to be among the largest monolith hills. It consists of peninsular gneiss, granites, basic dykes and laterites. It is a paradise for rock climbers.

Rappelling at Savandurga Hills

Surrounding the area is a state forest with scrub and dry deciduous forest covering 27 sq. km. The degraded forest, which is considered as shrub and tree savanna of the Anogeissus?Chloroxylon?Acacia series is highly diverse, recording over 59 tree and 119 shrub species. The Arkavathi river passes nearby through the Thippagondanahalli reservoir and on towards Manchanabele.

Launching Winning Missile

Savanadurga is a place of historic importance as well due to its ancient temples, ruins and a fort at the top of the hill which was built by King Samantha Raya. It was also used as the hideout of Kempe Gowda.

This was also a location for the making of David Lean’s movie “Passage to India”.