Bedi initiative

Siddharth told me of a website called www.saferindia.com. This is the site of an NGO started by Kiran Bedi. You can log your complaint on any crime if the police does not accept it. The NGO will mail your complaint to the DGP of your area. You can also use this mail as the legal document while filing a case in court.

Dearth of seriously good reading material!

Netizens may be claiming control of the Web, but that still hasn't solved a problem that I continue to face: finding really well-written, interesting material to read. The regular newspaper features are okay, but I can't remember the last time I came across something that really impressed me.

I'm not fussy about what I read, as long as it is gripping. And that's difficult to find these days. Besides, when you're working full time and managing a family as well, it's impossible to endlessly surf the Web to find something worth reading.

I'm ready to put up links to things that I find really worth reading - not to worry, I don't see myself flooding the blog any time soon. But if we could all put up links to stories we find worth reading, that would be great.

Hope to see some links here soon. Cheers...

Best wishes, etc

Hi,
Here's to a great 2008... and hoping we have another reunion in the first six months.
Why don't we create a directory of acjians on this site? We already have a few email ids and phone numbers.
Fiona (Fernandez) from Bombay (5th batch) was in Bangalore yesterday. She's with the Essar group (publishers of TimeOut magazine). Fio is also the author of two quiz books and a recent work called 'Ten Heritage Walks of Mumbai' (Rupa; Rs 395) which offers you perspectives of Bombay that you would never have known otherwise. Check it out.
Meanwhile, I found this interesting article online. This was in The Hindu, written by an acjian (John Paul) and quotes his classmate :).
Pages of pranks and adventure

acj's micro-communities...

Archana had come down to Bangalore in September. She's in Bombay with Bloomberg. Incidentally, Nandu from our (fifth) batch was in Kerala at the same time and we persuaded him to join us. We wandered around the usual hang-outs -- lunch at Koshy's; tea at Kohinoor.
Nandu is on an Erasmus scholarship in Europe and won an award for his paper on new communication media in Islam.
I've uploaded the pdf file of his thesis on our Google group site.
-Dev
(Pics: The three of us at Kohinoor; Nandu autographs a book :), me and Arch at Shivagange, a good trekking and pilgrimage destination an hour out of Bangalore.)

Blogs

Dev has just mailed in a list of blogs by ACJ-ians:

Ramya: http://ramyablogs.blogspot.com
Dhiraj:http://bodhishop.blogspot.com/
Kamlesh: http://kamleshksingh.blogspot.com/
Dev: http:// devsan.blogspot.com

Jab We Met

ACJ-Bangalore alumni and faculty came together for a reunion in Bangalore on 15 December 2007. And we decided we needed a blog.

So here's where we can post information, news, gossip, and pictures that we'd like to share with our collective.

Happy posting!