Trivandrum Rants

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...

  Recently I gave the rainbow treatment to my Facebook profile picture. I had earlier read about it and seen some people do it bu...

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...

Circa 5000 BC (7,000 years ago) – Wing Commander Gopal Biogas was sitting in the cockpit of his interplanetary aircraft. He is taking a...

  Sometimes, even though you don’t want to, you end up thinking of the year that went by. So, here are some random thoughts that...

Three years ago, people in Trivandrum (and Calicut) were thrown a bone by the Chief Dream Merchant (CdM), which we all lapped up (see M...

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...