Trivandrum Rants

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...

Smartphone, WhatsApp, Facebook – I succeeded in staying away from these for a long time. Then, one day I surrendered ( Year-end Ruminat...

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...