Skip to: Site menu | Main content


Archive for January, 2008

Barcamp2 in Kerala – Cochin Cusat

Barcamp is a gathering of people who want to share and learn. Typically it is a techy event and the last barcamp saw a lot of geeks in attendance.
The second Barcamp is being organized at Cochin on February 3rd, 2008. The venue is DOE (Department of Electronics) seminar hall, CUSAT. You can register for the [...]

Download Malayalam Calendar 2008 – PDF

Kerala Kaumudi has published Malayalam Calendar for 2008. You can download it from here. Kerala Kaumudi is the only paper to publish the calendar in the Web for free!
This calendar contains all important holidays, muhoorthams, train timings and star sign predictions for the year. It is in a suitable format for printing. It is about [...]

Athirappilly power project – The need of the hour

India is currently experiencing a power production shortage of 7% and during peak times it goes up to 12%. It is expected that power requirements are going to rapidly increase in the coming years.
Kerala is also no exception. Much of Kerala’s power requirement is satisfied by one of the best hydro electric projects in the [...]

Lack of consumer choice and competition in Kerala

I have written many times on the lack of consumer choice in Kerala. The only hope is the arrival of new retail chains. In Kerala, Trivandrum is especially hostile to consumers. Most of the shopkeepers are behaving like they are running some kind of charity shop for consumers.
Check out an interesting experience of Mr. Santhosh [...]

Happy New Year : Welcome to power cuts

Happy New Year to all the readers of Kerala Tips. It has been an exciting year in Kerala and it promises to be much more exciting in 2008.
As a start, from the new year day onwards, Kerala Electricity Board imposed 30 minute power cuts (called affectionately as load shedding) across Kerala. If everything goes well, [...]