Trivandrum Rants

Three years ago, people in Trivandrum (and Calicut) were thrown a bone by the Chief Dream Merchant (CdM), which we all lapped up (see M...

It’s festive season again. The air is filled with the pungent smell of burning rubber, plastic and waste.    People are singing paeans to...

It’s been almost a month since I landed back in GOC capital, and I don’t even know where to start ranting. First up is the garbage ...

When god speaketh, man shuts the f$@k up-eth. That is the norm. But unbeknownst to god, there are a set of people called rationalists wh...

Over the past few years, there was one thing that struck me while going around Trivandrum. Our obsession with gateways, and I have been tr...

When you travel abroad and get to actually see how other countries (not necessarily first world countries) address issues related to urban...

A picture is worth a thousand words (in some versions it is 10,000 words). This saying, I found out after painstaking research that involv...

“Throw them a bone, willya? Let them chew on it for a while”. This was the thought that passed through my mind when I saw the news of “mon...