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Bulp Piction 27 Jul 2013 | 07:08 pm
Lakshminarasimhan reclined on his easy chair, Hindu newspaper in hand, filter coffee on a small side table, searching for something to outrage about. He was humming an Ananda Bhairavi korvai when his ...
Th3 G1t4 30 Apr 2013 | 06:22 pm
There’s a reason why certain cultural artifacts stay relevant across the ages. The beauty of the language and the powerful symbolism of the poetry give every generation the ability to derive contempo...
Adventures of an engineering dad – part 1 20 Apr 2013 | 03:06 pm
It is interesting how everyone becomes an expert in the general theory of kid management on the basis of having just one or two of them in a lifetime. It’s a bit like reading Shashi Tharoor’s tweets a...
An Expectant Father 6 Jun 2012 | 03:53 am
For a country that is mostly conservative, elderly family members are sure able to suspend any and all manner of delicateness when it comes to the serious matter of issues, or as The Hindu matrimonial...
On Valentine’s Day 15 Feb 2012 | 03:40 am
Ever since I was 14, Valentine’s Day has always been interesting for me, and not necessarily in just good ways. I grew up in Madras, a city not particularly known for its sense of romance. As school k...
Fiddle away the moments that make up a dull day 26 Aug 2011 | 04:50 am
Hello everyone. Just in case you thought I was wasting my time on Twitter, starting pointless Tumblr memes, whiling away precious hours recording corny music and writing columns for newspapers instead...
Asian Vegetarian Hell 21 Feb 2011 | 09:33 am
Single celled organisms swimming around in the primordial ooze met up with each other for dates, eventually forming multicellular organisms that then evolved the ability to move around and meet up wit...
Indianizing the Facebook “Like” button 26 Oct 2010 | 10:49 pm
In India, we do things differently. And in keeping with the rich tradition of orally imparted knowledge and MMS scandals, we rarely like to write things down, and that is why when we go to “foreign”,...
Jalscifi #1 – Sabarimala, circa 2287 A.D 26 Aug 2010 | 10:01 pm
Like most kids, I used to love sketching. And like most kids, I gave it up the moment I realized that I wasn’t very good at it. This whole business of wanting to do only things one is good at is one o...
Kentucky Fried Creation 19 Aug 2010 | 07:18 am
It is rather uncommon of me to spend more than a couple of days in any city I visit on work. There’s usually only enough time to grab a Baja Chalupa (beans instead of beef) at a Taco Bell for nostalgi...
