Trivandrum Rants

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

Being the capital, Trivandrum attracts all kinds of people who want to air their grievances in front of the Secretariat here, the de-fac...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

  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 ...

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