At work we're releasing the Kannada version of India Water Portal:
http://www.indiawaterportal.org/kannada
We're organising an event at Bangalore to release this, this Friday. Chief guest and all. I suck at organising events. I wish I didn't have to do it.
I have been spending time trying to figure out how to do language water portals in a sustainable way. Some of my thoughts:
-- its close to impossible to create sites in 'n' different Indian languages. And then try to manage and maintain any uniformity or quality control !
-- so it should be done like some sort of a wiki with maximum particapation and less control. But how exactly !!?
-- Indian states probably have comparable populations to European countries. So looked at that way, there is potential for a thriving local language internet in all Indian languages. Somehow I need to capitalize on that.
We also just started a flickr account, with user submitted photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21623815@N03/
Check for example this gorgeous photo of a 'talaab', traditional water storage tank in Rajasthan, taken by Farhad Contractor, a really cool chap that Arghyam supports.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21623815@N03/2246590994/in/set-72157603859592968/
There are also some photos of flooding in Bihar last year. The photos are beautiful, though the flooding is a terrible event.
If you have good water-related photos, send them to us and we'll add it to the collection.
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