Trivandrum Rants

From secular progressive to regressive. That didn't take much time, did it? There is a palpable sense of glee in some quarters,...

We are mallus (some consider this term derogatory. I don’t). Many of us were and are proud of that, though I never understood why. We had...

   It’s been close to two months since I left the heat and grime of Trivandrum for the cooler climes in the northeast of Japan. With t...

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. - H.L. Mencken   There’...

I am a big fan of mythologies. I grew up listening to stories from the Hindu mythology told by my dad, uncle and aunt. Then my dad gave...

Foreigners new to Japan initially find it hard to understand the calendar here. According to the Japanese calendar, this is the 27 th ...

  Sometimes, even though you don’t want to, you end up thinking of the year that went by. So, here are some random thoughts that...