Archive for June, 2009

Devaraj Urs Road – Part 2

In order to get more inputs on the DD Urs Road tree planting plans, my business partner and friend, Suraj met someone who had already did this earlier. It seems that he is the one responsible for the few trees that exist on the road now. The road boasted of many more trees some years [...]


Devaraj Urs Road – Tree line Plans

Devaraj Urs Road is one of the most important roads in Mysore with one end of it touching the Mysore palace.

In spite of being the central road of Mysore and being the commercial center of the city, the road in terms of aesthetics does not score high. The road is planned with automobiles in mind [...]


137 trees saved in Mysore

I thought I’d write this while the euphoria of winning a battle in democratic ways has still not subsided. The issue was about cutting of 137 trees in Lalit Mahal Road in Mysore for easing traffic flow. Many times, such acts just go unnoticed. However, this region being a declared heritage site and one of [...]


Environment Day 2009 Updates

The day started pretty early at 6 AM in the morning with the planting of 6 saplings. It was done in a park close to Ashwin’s house since it was a week day and planting anywhere else would have taken considerably more time. Indian tulip, Cannon ball tree, tamarind, yellow cassia and bauhinia were planted. [...]


World environment day

Tomorrow is world environment day and we are supposed to do something about it right? What about the day after? Isn’t that as important as tomorrow? What about every day? I think tomorrow is just a reason for getting the unstarted people to start doing something about the environment.
So what’s really special about tomorrow? May [...]