Trivandrum Rants

“Accha, look,” my 11-year old son shouted from the tatami room. I turned back to see him lying supine on a pile of pillows with his hea...

My ancestor was a rishi and not some ape as I believed all along. This I learned during a visit to GOC for vacation a few months ago. I s...

Most days I get up in a reasonably neutral mood. Get up, poop, shave, send out some GMs, get the kids up and ready for school, etc. Ro...

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

When you live in what is essentially a police state, clumsily camouflaged in democratic garb, you have to be doubly careful about airi...

In praise of Modi and Shashi Tharoor!? Now, that is one sentence I thought I would never write, not even in my wildest dreams. And believe...