{"id":2615,"date":"2003-01-17T22:24:36","date_gmt":"2003-01-17T16:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/17\/when-i-polluted-the-kaveri\/"},"modified":"2003-01-17T22:24:36","modified_gmt":"2003-01-17T16:54:36","slug":"when-i-polluted-the-kaveri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/when-i-polluted-the-kaveri\/","title":{"rendered":"When I polluted the Kaveri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sumtya.blogspot.com\/2002_12_22_sumtya_archive.html#86466868\" title = \"Sumeet's trip to Coorg\">This funny story of a trip to Coorg<\/a>( via <a href=\"http:\/\/gauravsabnis.blogspot.com\" class = \"Source\">Gaurav<\/a>) reminds me of my own disastrous trip to Coorg 3 years back. I was in Chennai at that time and as usual Karnataka had denied Tamilnadu Kaveri water. Finding it difficult to take a bath, our group of friends hired a van and decided to go to the source of the Kaveri to take a dip. (um.. not exactly true, but I just wanted to write that)<br \/>On the way one of us got conjunctivitis, and of course soon enough almost eveyone got it. <\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t manage to see much of Coorg&#8217;s beauty, but we succeeded in our determination to take a bath at the Talakaveri. So three years back if there was a strange increase in the number of conjunctivitis cases along the Kaveri basin in Karnataka, that was I, betraying my mother state for my then adopted state&#8217;s cause. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This funny story of a trip to Coorg( via Gaurav) reminds me of my own disastrous trip to Coorg 3 years back. I was in Chennai at that time and as usual Karnataka had denied Tamilnadu Kaveri water. Finding it difficult to take a bath, our group of friends hired a van and decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}