VIZAG matters - Sohan Hatangadi's Blog

  "TWO JABS DONE" CAKE Palki Hatangadi ordered a concept cake that commemorates completion of both vaccine jabs. Notice the Virus with spikes and all, on it exhorting "GO CORONA GO", a hand sanitizer bottle sits on the cake and you can see a green face mask alongside. We cut it today with my dada Chandan witnessed by my daughter and grandson. Thanks to the concept by Palki Hatangadi and design and production by Sirisha and Kalyaan of Bake my Wish at Lawson's Bay colonyy Modi ji can ask all of India to do this on next TV broadcast.

  Watch out for the equipment voltage. Remember USA, EU and UK plugs are different. Along with step-down transformers we will need plug adapters to plug into Indian power sockets. Better prepare in time.

  Bees saal baad! After 20 years GVMC gets an electric crematorium. This is only a start, we need 10 more.

Come take a walk along Vizag's premium beach at Sagarnagar, see how we have been engulfed by rubbish

With a threat looming over the remains of our ancient heritage site with the remains of a 300 BCE Buddhist Monastery it was imperitive to be on the site and discuss its future

This is a 14 min video, watching till the end will help us understand the situation better A GO No. 21 dated 12 Feb 2021 proposes to keep aside around 120 acres of Thotlakonda as a protected area and "de-notify" 3,000 acres of the hill for other use. This video discusses the danger of going ahead with this move.

Stopping unauthorised film shooting at Erra Matti Dibbalu

Mining in our hills - a disaster waiting to happen?

Plastics waste needs to be handled with an iron fist not later but NOW

Mi Robot Vacuum Mop.

TRAFFIC JAM AT LAMBASINGHI JN ON 26 DEC 2020 Unbelievable but true

Before 2016 our Vizag beach road had no ramps for the differently abled citizens of Vizag. When the World Tourism Day (WTD) theme was announced for that year as "Tourism for ALL" I took that as an opportunity to request then GVMC Commissioner and Collector to get ramps put on our beach road before celebrating World Tourism Day. I enumerated the ramps required and later commented on the works in progress. Thanks to a great push from the administration it was done before WTD and on 27 Sep 2016 our collector Pravin Kumar and others pushed wheel chairs from RK beach to YMCA. The campaign was a success, Later at a tourism meeting the collector announced that Vizag had the longest (2.5km) wheelchair friendly pavement in India. I made this video in 2016 with reference to WTD but today I am putting it on YouTube as a reminder that we must keep our public places accessible to those who use wheelchairs or prams. Please share this video.

Lambasinghi, in the Eastern Ghats, near Vizag, is famous for its beautiful scenery and low temperatures in winter. But it is attracting too many irresponsible "tourists" from nearby towns. They camp out in the open fields and leave huge volumes of litter behind. Lambasinghi is being overwhelmed by plastics. The ITDA and the Panchayats must act immediately to save the situation. Civil society must highlight this issue. The ghats are our natural heritage and needs our protection. Please share this message.

Every winter the media is full of gushing news about the beauty and cool temperature of Lambasinghi. But there is a dark side to it that needs to be addressed.

Last week spotted three Blue Mormon butterflies going through an elaborate ritual

On 25th October a group of heritage enthusiasts visited the Erra Matti Dibbalu (Red Sand Dunes) near Bheemili, on the Vizag Bheemili Beach Road

At the foothills of the Simhachalam Temple, a passionate group of persons create a forest in a space of just 1875 square meters. This is a demonstration. Imagine what can be done if these forests come up everywhere in the city. More about this soon