Visit to the Lost River
Location: Arkavathi Team Members: Gautham N V, Ramakumar R S, M R Rajaram Date: 17th of April 2016 The trip was scheduled at 0530 hrs from Bangalore but as a known fact the early risers were able to make it only by 0630 hrs. Since it was a late start the earlier plan to visit the Vulture sanctuary at Ramanagara was dropped. Arkavathi, a river originating from Nandi Hills and flowing all the way to Kanakapura to join the Holy Ganges of the south - "Cauvery". I started out to write this blog with a lot of enthusiasm and fervor, but after reading the news article by Mr.Ganadhalu Srikanta in Deccan Herald (2011) and other reports, I have grown despondent and heartbroken. The write-up that follows will contain both trip report as well as some abominable acts of man that have unfolded after the visit. It is with a heavy heart I am penning that in the last few years in the name of the so-called development of the capital of Karnataka, we humans have left no stone ...