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Jog Falls, the most beautiful place of Shimoga District, a bear witness to nature’s headlong tumble as the Sharavati river makes a spectacular drop of 810ft. (253m) in four distinct cascades – known locally as Raja, Rani, Rover and Rocket – to create the highest falls in Asia. The falls are at their best during the monsoon, with arching rainbows colouring the mist. The place is 113 kms from Shimoga.
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[edit] Merger of this page with Shimoga district Dineshkannambadi 18:17, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
I have cleaned up quite a bit. I am going to add some neat photos too. I forgot to log in a few times, but all recent edits were made by me. Please add any good photos you may have especially from Sharavathi WLS, Gudavi or Mandagadde BS, Agumbe, Kodachadri etc. I feel there is no need to have seperate wiki pages for Shimoga district and Shimoga town. They can be merged. I have included Shimoga town related details in the page for the district itself. Please add more details about "demographics", "Economy", "culture" if possible,. I have added very useful info to most of the Tourist places, "History" and "Places of antiquity" which I recently visited. So if it is ok with you guys, i will do a redirect from page "Shimoga" to Shimoga District. Please let me know if there is a problem with this and we can discuss.
Dinesh Kannambadi
[edit] Khadi Shankarappa
I have removed the following lines from the History section; With these lines occupying the majority of the history section, the "History of Shimoga" was looking more like the biography of one person:
"Khadi Shankarappa - A freedom fighter: K. Shankarappa who is known as Khadi Shankarappa is the person responsible for the spread of khadi movement in the district. He along with S.R. Nagappa Shetty started Sudarshana Khadi Nilaya during 1930s in Shimoga. He devoted his life to popularise Khadi and established the Khadi Mandira in Shimoga and was also responsible for establishment of weaving centres in Shimoga district. He was imprisioned several times during the freedom struggle, but he continued working, underground, as a khadi karyakartha.
After India gained independence, Khadi Shankarappa devoted his service to the movement of Co-operation in the district. He served City Co-operative Bank, City Co-operative Society in several capacities. Mr. Shankarappa has published his memories titled "Antharya" which was released in 1999. It is a historical document of the freedom struggle of the district. He expired on 27th April 2005, leaving his family, hundreds of admirers, friends and khadi karyakarthas who were inspired by his teachings."
--ashwatha 10:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] weather
I plan to remove the entire section on weather, which contains this text:
"The weather is pleasant throughout the year except during the summer when the temperature reaches a maximum of 40 degree Celsius. The water resource is more than good since many rivers originate here. Public utility land resource is sufficient, especially the stretch of the national highway between Sagar and Shimoga. If the infrastructure of the city is worked upon Shimoga will be an ideal location for most IT companies. IT companies can find place Between Bhadravathi and Shimoga also ..Bhadravathi is a place of Industries and known for well known good Educational Institutions ."
The first line is the only one that actually deals with weather, and this can simply be moved elsewhere. The rest of it is not related to weather, and the author's ideas about whether or not Shimoga is a good destination for software companies is not only POV, but un-encyclopedic and speculative. Just to clarify, I am from SHimoga myself, and perfectly proud of it. --ashwatha 10:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Noted personalities
I would like to start a discussion on the noted personalities listed in this article; It lists a number of people that I have never heard of, even though have lived in and around Shimoga for 20 years. I think this section needs to list only the list of people from SHimoga who are noted on a national or state level. Being noted just in Shimoga should not really count, IMHO. However, I am not going to do a mass cleanup of this list right now, since I would like to hear others' opinions as well. --ashwatha 10:17, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup
I will also be removing the cleanup tag on this page, since a lot of unecessary information has now been cleaned. --ashwatha 03:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
