Indian Epics via Comics

I found an online version of Amar Chitra Katha (literally translated to Eternal Stories through Pictures from Hindi) on Valmiki's Ramayana, a Sanskrit Epic. These comics were brain fodder for us when I was growing up. I hope the rest of the epics are digitized and enabled for online access as well.

Bangalore Maps

In an earlier post I had predicted satellite maps integration into google tools. I was right about that one, but I had incorrectly surmised that India would be off the map. Its now accessible from Google Earth and to a finer level of detail than that of even maps.google.com. The Indian Government complains about publishing such sensitive data...Google rebuts that this information has been public all along...albiet for a small sum of money.

Anyway, whats missing from the aerial maps of Bangalore is...the traffic :) Also, it lacks any street names and landmarks. My friend Vicky, a fellow-Bangalorean and classmate, sent me his set of landmarks that can be imported to embellish the barren landscape. I added landmarks for the many pubs...its a bit out-of-date because I havent been there in two years. This is a work in progress...


Pubs in Bangalore

These landmarks besides the pubs are places around Bangalore that I lived/studied/hung-out...


Bangalore

If the landmarks file was text-based we could have made a wiki and have all the information added on...in every part of Bangalore using a collaborative approach.