Trivandrum Rants

It’s the season of naming the person of the year, leader of the year, bigot of the year, etc. Upon ringing in that new year, I wanted to ...

“Dey, your Kuru has fled the country”. I woke up to umpteen such messages on my WhatsAppi screen a few days ago, but being my Kuru’s shis...

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...