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December 2013

Humility and Simplicity

By |2013-12-10T17:05:12-05:00December 2nd, 2013|Kerala, Politics|

Do not write these two thousand word rambling, loud editorials which insults everybody's intelligence. This is not Narendra Modi's party which needs to make up for lack of intelligence and critical thinking through loud provocations. Don't be a cyber hindu.

November 2013

An aiport in Aranmula

By |2017-12-19T02:10:56-05:00November 28th, 2013|Malayalam|

The residents of Aranmula question the sheer arrogance of imperial governments in Delhi and Trivandrum deciding to land airplanes on their ponds, rivers, temples and farms. No technical arguments, no GDP discussions, no theory vs praxis confusions, no relativistic laziness

Kasturirangan Report

By |2014-02-07T13:40:44-05:00November 18th, 2013|Kerala|

Because everyone from Asianet news reader Vinu to the honorable high court of this land will ask you whether you have read the report. The green people (which surprisingly now includesgreen MLA Hibi Eden and Idukki M.P.), are generally assumed to be of higher intellect and are not expected to the answer the question.

Lingavishappu by Vishnu Prasad

By |2013-11-11T01:06:56-05:00November 11th, 2013|Malayalam, Poetry|

In a recent interview with Madhyamam newspaper, the author talks about the 'hunter's viewpoint' when it comes to sexual assaults. Vishnu Prasad feels better understanding the hunter's social conditions is important enough and is seldom thought of. He feels male sexuality is suppressed in Kerala's social conditioning. He goes to the extent of claiming men are more sexually frustrated than women. He details the 'hunter's viewpoint' in detail in some of his poems, like the recently controversial "Linga vishappu" in which he says, the man's under wear that gets torn from excessive masturbation does not lie about his social condition, about the suppressed hunger of the penis.

October 2013

Good read: on education

By |2013-11-05T02:56:09-05:00October 29th, 2013|Good Read|

when workplaces valued punctuality, regularity, attention, and silence above all else. (In 1899, William T. Harris, the US commissioner of education, celebrated the fact that US schools had developed the "appearance of a machine," one that teaches the student "to behave in an orderly manner, to stay in his own place, and not get in the way of others.")

Warhol

By |2013-10-19T01:46:59-05:00October 14th, 2013|Poetry, Trivia|

Pink eraser: I never fall apart because I never fall together. Also - "Everybody should like everybody," and "The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting,"

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