VIZAG matters - Sohan Hatangadi's Blog

Today a light drizzle stopped the hot air balloon in its track.  This morning's flying  event was cancelled due to inclement weather. This evening a display of the balloons tethered (tied to the ground) and lit up will be displayed at NTR grounds.  Visitors to the event were mainly Vizagites. It will be interesting to know how many real "tourists" came to the venue. I am not talking about the event organizers and the 15-20 foreigner balloonists. I am talking about  genuine domestic or international  tourists. Then divide the expenditure by the incremental number of tourists who visited and we will get a huge per tourist expenditure.  The figure for expenditure is being mentioned as 5 crores. Say we got around 100 tourists that too is a generous figure. We will end up with something like 7L per tourist! Sounds awesome doesn't it? Incidentally this is all public money. That means your money and mine. Cheers. Don't just read this ... share it...

Read this as it appeared in the papers: Or simply read the word document here... A s it has over thousands of years, summer has come around again. As anyone interested in astronomy will know it happens because the earth’s axis is tilted. In summer the northern hemisphere is closer to the sun making it warmer. In winters the exact opposite happens making the southern hemisphere hot. This fortunate tilt is the engine that causes seasons that and is responsible for the diversity of our crops and much of life on earth. Not only does the earth change its trajectory around the sun going from elliptical to circular causing climate change but as the earth’s axis wobbles like a slow spinning top, the axis of the earth shifts back and forth changing our climate. In 11,000 years from now Vizag will be having winter in July and eating mangoes in December! Historical temperatures Though we all know it is going to be bad, we are always surprised by how terrible summer is when it visit...