Trivandrum Rants

After three years of Covid-imposed exile, I finally made it to my momma-land GOC (God’s Own Country, or as in some interpretations, God’s Ow...

My toilet  Everybody has something or the other that they associate with a childhood experience or event. It could be a happy or a traumat...

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” – Arthur C. Clarke The scream pierced the Trivandrum night...

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

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...

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 ...

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