Monday, 24 September 2012

You’ve Come a Long way, Baby

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The early 80s was the time when chicken corners became popular in Trivandrum. The boom was pioneered by Taj Chicken Corner and Tushara C...
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Thursday, 6 September 2012

Emerging, Submerging...De Vannu, Da Poyi

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Kerala, as we all know, ‘emerged’ when Parasuraman threw his parasu (axe) from Gokarna to Kanyakumari. Why Gokarna? Why not from Ratnagiri...
Monday, 25 June 2012

Trivandrum Monorail – “To be or not to be a Paara”

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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...
Monday, 18 June 2012

The Stink Came First, Therefore...

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The New Indian Express has a section on spirituality in its Sunday magazine. I usually skim through it for my weekly dose of humour. Thi...
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Sunday, 11 March 2012

Gateways, Monorail, Tender, Amakudari

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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...
Monday, 13 February 2012

Xmas Star, High-speed Rail, Lit-fests, Nurses

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The other day I was walking out of my gate with my two sons. A guy passed us by, looking intently at my face, and then retraced his steps ...
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Monday, 12 December 2011

Our Standards, Western Standards, PODs for Trivandrum, etc.

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When you travel abroad and get to actually see how other countries (not necessarily first world countries) address issues related to urban...
Friday, 18 November 2011

Maglev, Trivandrum Monorail, Railway God and Confucius

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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...