Trivandrum Rants

It’s almost a month now since I resurrected my life in Japan on Easter Sunday. On April 1, I moved into this small apartment, a few minut...

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” – Arthur C. Clarke The scream pierced the Trivandrum night...

We are mallus (some consider this term derogatory. I don’t). Many of us were and are proud of that, though I never understood why. We had...

At times, I want to be Sivan. Not the destroyer god with three eyes, though I wouldn’t mind having that third eye. Especially when drivin...

If you don’t know by now, the history of the greatest ever nation to exist under the sun god that you have been learning all along at sc...

   It’s been close to two months since I left the heat and grime of Trivandrum for the cooler climes in the northeast of Japan. With t...

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. - H.L. Mencken   There’...