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Nim, nim, nim! 8 Aug 2013 | 02:19 am
Posted in Notes I didn’t know what makes the kids fancy “Chhota Bheem”. I have heard a couple of friends mentioning the character when they spoke of their kids and now I see my son Ryan being glued t...
Meanwhile in Delhi… 25 Jul 2013 | 06:12 pm
Posted in NationNotesPolitics Tweet The writer was searching for ideas to write a new book. By the time he had already used the themes he knew best – the upper/middle-class, elite educational instit...
Of puppies and the Men-behind-the-drivers 14 Jul 2013 | 11:22 pm
Posted in NationNotesPolitics The puppy is silly. He makes his passage not knowing that the next car on the road might just hit him. He may not have realized that the next car could be ‘the’ car. The...
The spiritual expeditions 9 Jul 2013 | 03:17 pm
Posted in Uncategorized As I was reading about little Pi’s experiments with different religions in the book ‘Life of Pi‘, it brought back memories of my own spiritual expedition in the childhood. I t...
Motivationals or Biographies? 27 Jun 2013 | 03:25 pm
Posted in BooksNotesUncategorized The truth is that I am not much in favor of motivational books or how-to books anymore. Not completely shut myself to them, but. I used to like them because I though...
On Jiah Khan’s suicide 13 Jun 2013 | 12:35 pm
Posted in NewsUncategorized Happened to read Mahesh Murthy’s comments on Jiah Khan suicide episode in Facebook and got to say that it is insensitive and ignorant in most parts. Ignorant because he wr...
Malayali House – more ‘reality’ in the house! 15 May 2013 | 04:46 pm
Posted in KeralaRegionalTelevisionUncategorized It is a ‘reality show’ everywhere. In sports, music, on stage, television and many a times in life too. People initially had thought that many of these...
A song that traveled places 8 May 2013 | 12:35 am
Posted in EntertainmentMusicMy SongsUncategorized Way back in 2008, I had posted a song in my old blog. It was a prayer song that I used to sing in my school everyday during the morning assembly. The...
Thrissur Pooram 2013 6 May 2013 | 09:57 am
Posted in Uncategorized This year Thrissur Pooram was on a Sunday so I set out to click some pics as usual. The heat did not seem to have stopped people from coming to Thrissur Pooram. It was as aliv...
No Urdu, please. And no Hindi too. 18 Apr 2013 | 02:49 pm
Posted in NationUncategorized TweetUrdu, I heard, is a beautiful language. I don’t understand it though, but those who have dealt with it, like a lyricist friend of mine, have always praised the lang...
