Tuesday, 23 July 2013

I Kinda Have a Dream

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Next month is the 50 th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech (March on Washington, August 1963). To think that it...
Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Back in GOC!

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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 ...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave

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Well, time for a little blog resuscitation, methinks. Not because of the overwhelming demand (two at last count) from readers, but give...
Friday, 7 December 2012

Three Wise Monkeys + 1

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There is a myth that has been going around for about 6½ decades in our country, which we tend to present to foreigners to earn brownie poi...
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Sunday, 18 November 2012

Amicus Curiae, or what?

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  Every now and then a word pops up in the media which makes you go, “what the f$#k is that?” Over the past few weeks one such word has ...
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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...