Category Archives: Trivandrum
CET – Pages from 2000
Hope you had a great decade, take my word(I just ran the numbers), the next ten years are gonna be much much better! It’s already 2010 in India, Happy New Year to all! I’m ringing in the new year in Eastern time at NYC with a small CET get-together, a couple more hours to go [...]
CET….
almost all birds we knew have flown, many of us have kids our age, Mammooty aged back ten years, Shilpa Shetty got married, Kavya got divorced, IFFK turned 14, K Karunakaran is still alive (now I didn’t see that coming), malayalam cinema returned to world class, I check my mails every 4 minutes, Dhwani is safe in new hands, I didn’t win a booker prize, I am still single (now I didn’t see that coming). But the mind still wanders to CET for sanity and a little courage, and CET still influences the way many of us react to money, power, and women.
Of all the things…
….I miss about Trivandrum, I miss the festival (‘07 , ‘08) the most. It could be seasonal, because it is the 2nd week of December and the film Gods have descended on IFFK’s 14th Edition. Now that I am not there, as always I’m trying to aggregate. Some of the best posts on IFFK 2009 [...]
Raghu
I found this poem today(via Deepak’s blog), and once again the urge to learn the malayalam keyboard and post in malayalam grows overwhelming. Like there are a few things which you can say only in Malayalam. Like see how a beautiful verse loses its vitality when I attempt to translate it,
Raghu
Raghu says his name is [...]
Zoo ‘n d rain
Like the leapord, the rest of the city was blanketed inside the heavy showers – sleeping. And I for one found out that Leopards are solitary animals except during mating season. Then again if you sleep for sixteen hours a day, you’ll mostly end up solitary, ha lonely.
Visiting Trivandrum Zoo after close to a decade, [...]
Thus spake..