I Heart My City

National Geographic Traveler magazine’s online blog – ‘Intelligent Travel Blog’ is running a feature on cities called ‘I Heart My City’. Anyone can participate and fill in two dozen blanks to describe the city they live in. I thought I will send an entry from Bangalore, but quickly found it hard to fill up many of those blanks. Would you like to give it a go? Give it a try and see how much can you fill in easily.


Summer Time

February is almost ending and summer is round the corner. India Travel Blog presents a long list of hill stations and cooler places to visit this summer, from every part of India. Also listed are wildlife destinations where summer is best season to see the animals.

South

* Hill Stations – Ooty, Kodaikanal and Munnar
* Coorg
* Wayanad
* Chikmaglur
* Periyar Tiger Reserve
* Bandipur National Park

Chikmaglur
Chikmaglur

North and North East

Himachal

* Manali and Rohtang Pass
* Shimla, Chail, Kufri
* Lahaul and Spiti
* Kinnaur – Kalpa Village

Uttaranchal

* Auli
* Corbett National Park
* Kumaon – Binsar and Nainital
* Rajaji National Park

Mt.Nanda Devi
Mt.Nanda Devi seen from Auli

Sikkim and North East

* North Sikkim – Yumthang Valley and Gurudongmar
* West Sikkim – Trek to Dzongri and Geocha la
* Tawang
* Shillong and Cherrapunjee
* Eaglenest National Park


Tawang Monastery


Times of India steals again

They are good at it, aren’t they?

Somehow Indian media thinks copyrights are meant to be made fun of. flickr user zedaxis22 finds his images on Times of India, stolen. This is not their first time, they seem to have made a habit of it. Only a few months ago, they stole a picture from Shrinidhi and had to subsequently apologize and pay up. I guess they think it is worth trying again. But this time, they have built more thick skin around them – zedaxis22 contacted ToI, and they simply refused to compensate.

Mainstream media in India has made a habit of not respecting copyrights and happily steal things at will. Blogbharti and desipundit have long lists of posts on images stolen from bloggers (just one such post here). NDTV had stolen one of my images once, and subsequently apologized. When will they stop? What do we need to do to make stealing a really expensive affair for culprits, I wonder.