Trivandrum Rants

My ancestor was a rishi and not some ape as I believed all along. This I learned during a visit to GOC for vacation a few months ago. I s...

A bit late to wish you, the fifteen readers who read this, a happy new year, but allow me to do it anyway. The new year started off w...

From secular progressive to regressive. That didn't take much time, did it? There is a palpable sense of glee in some quarters,...

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...