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August 12th, 2008
If any of you have recently visited Ernakulam, you know the traffic jam problems. The roads are congested and is being utilized well over its capacity. Road rage is a common incident and sometimes it even takes an hour to cover 5 Kilometres.
The only long term solution to this is the Metro rail. All [...]
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August 7th, 2008
In order to squeeze the last bit of money and to torture its customers, Indian Railways is taking a number of steps. In this post I will point out two of such nonsense steps. I don’t know who gets such idiotic ideas, but anyway for passengers it is going to be a lot of hassle.
1. Advertising through [...]
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June 22nd, 2008
When it comes to road infrastructure, Kerala is lagging behind other states. Marxist party was opposing the national highway expansion program since they were against toll collection on the highways. As usual common sense came 2 years later and they mysteriously changed their stance and said tolls are good for the people. So after a [...]
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June 12th, 2008
It is unfortunate that even today authentic/informative articles on Kerala’s tourist attractions are missing on the Web. So from this week, I am starting an article series under the category "Kerala Travel Diary". In these articles I will try to capture the beauty of each tourist place I visit along with detailed photographs and location [...]
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June 10th, 2008
At last KSRTC has implemented bus route numbers for city services in Trivandrum. Earlier the bus routes were written only in Malayalam and most of the boards were difficult to read. Also people from outside and tourists had a tough time finding the bus to their destination.
KSRTC operates around 1522 distinct city services. [...]
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May 10th, 2008
In an idiotic move, Kerala government completely banned private bus services in nationalized routes from today. Earlier private buses were allowed to run up to 10KM through nationalized routes. Now not even an inch through the nationalized routes are allowed and that means they can’t even cross them.
This move will surely bring untold misery to [...]
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May 10th, 2008
If you are travelling often on Kerala highways, you would be looking for good hotels where you can relax and get some decent food. If you are not a regular traveller, this is much more difficult than you think. Most of the highway side hotels are a rip-off.
I don’t know about other activities of KTDC [...]
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December 18th, 2007
Today I came across Tan Wee Cheng’s blog post on his Kerala visit. It is pretty long, but is quite insightful as well
History has shown that any move to retard progress and efficiency would surely fail and bring more suffering when the axe eventually falls. Remember the English weavers who burned down new [...]
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June 14th, 2007
Recently in a tragic event, a ticketless passenger died when he jumped out of the mumbai train to escape from ticket examiners. As usual, media is portraying ticket examiners (TTE) as satans. In this post, I will look at the railway problems from both sides.
First of all, the main problem is that there isn’t enough [...]
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April 24th, 2007
Kerala is one of the few states in India where almost all the train passengers pay for their ticket! Yet again and again central government ignores Kerala when it comes to allocation of new trains. It is a real torture to travel on one of the day trains such as “Malabar express” or “Parasuram [...]
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April 17th, 2007
Thenmala damn area is India’s first ecotourism destination. It is located near punalur in Kollam district. To know more about what you can do and see in Thenmala, check out the ecotourism tour itinerary.
Ecotourism is a new concept in tourism. It is a purposeful travel to natural areas to understand the cultural and natural history [...]
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April 9th, 2007
Periyar national park is located in Idukki district. The protected area covers an area of 777 km², out of which a 350 km² part of the main zone was made into the Periyar National Park and Tiger Reserve, also known as the Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary.
Check out the following video (duration: 4 minutes) which gives [...]
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March 30th, 2007
Charukesi writes about the Cherai beach experience (with photos) - part1 | part 2
I could have spent hours just staring the backwaters - and I did just that. Watching the birds swoop down to pick up their lunch - or evening snack, as the case may be. And the tiny fish go plop plop as [...]
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March 22nd, 2007
Karmadude muses on the all pervasive autorickshaw of Kerala. He has also started a Flickr photo group called “View from a Rickshaw“.
Flash forward to first grade, and Vandikaran’s cycle rickshaw was no more, instead replaced by a motorized version, the auto rickshaw. There was this time when Kunjachan uncle, loaded all the kids into Vandikaran’s [...]
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March 21st, 2007
Here is an interesting travel tale from Kerala. A well written blog entry on Kerala experience!
They paint their huge work trucks in this fantastic detailed way. Isn’t that the coolest?! I love it. The trucks are owned by individuals. Having one is a great source of livlihood for the family. I don’t know if you [...]
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