For the fifth year running, ITU, ISO and IEC will bring together the key players involved in the development of standards for ICTs in motor vehicles, as well as other key industry figures for the F...
From the Iron Curtain to the Electronic Fence
Ralph Adam reports on the Sekforde Arms meeting on 8 July 2008
The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an important resource a...
Will science become a land of diminishing opportunities?
LP Hartley’s The go-between begins with the immortal sentence: "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” In that st...
Three conference abstracts: Moving Towards the Digital Classroom, Learner Strategies With Multimedia Digital Applications: Identity, Agency, Authorship, and The Knowledge, Practice and Ownership of...
Rock climbing styles: Traditional climbing: A traditional rock climber is more often called as ‘Trad’ climber. A Trad climber is any climber, who is secured with ropes and places protection (pro) l...
Climbing Knots: Without hyperbole employed, there are more than 100 knots (even more) one can use for climbing purposes; however, few most essential knots are mentioned here. Few basics of knots ar...
Why go Rock climbing? When you utter the phrase, the first thing that most people will ask you is, “Are you nuts? That is just too dangerous.” They are right. Climbing is an inherently dangerous sp...
Have Passion! It was probably the April of 1974. Bangalore was getting warm and gulmohars were blooming at the IISc campus. I was the only girl in my postgraduate department and was staying at the ...
According to Oxford dictionary, Climbing means Making way up or uphill, tree ladder esp. with hands, mount slowly. Climb up or climb down ie. Descent Trekking means migrtation or journey with one’s...
Rajmachi
Rajmachi; as the name suggests, the king of the machis….. Standing at the edge of the range jutting out from lonavala and stretching till karjat.….. one can easily see this twin peaked for...
Its not just an ancient pass, with its pristine beauty preserved, its also an incredible monument steeped in ancient Indian history. Cut through a narrow gorge in the Sahyadri range, in western gha...
Harishchandragad….the name has always evoked some exciting responses!!! Both among the newbies and the oldies….everyone seems to be well acquainted with this proper noun. Harishchandragad via tolar...
Korigad - Tikona trek…24th -25th july 2005 We all have monsoon treks on our wishlist as the season approaches and so did we. Just a week before the trek was planned..the trek was supposed to be a m...
the summer heat is on a rapid rise and so is the trekking season fading off rapidly. before the heat reaches it peak we wanted to do a nice little trek and the easily accesible gorakhgad-siddhagad ...
It was like sort of rekindling an old affair. Really had to have an rendezvous with dhakoba-durg after a couple of years. This November seemed to be offering the time and the weather. That was it a...
For long I had wanted to shirk off the daily hectic urbane routine and venture off in the wilderness of the mother nature, I had wanted to venture in the deep valleys and lush thickets of the Sahya...
Trekking in the sahyaris is spreading like an inferno... This really is good if we consider the desirous efforts and their fruits that they bore via some collective efforts...yeah just pointing out...