Pablo Neruda – Balachandran Chullikkadu
Chullikad's translation of Tonight i can write the saddest lines
You’ve been a coward in the fight
No Enemies You have no enemies, you say? Alas! my friend, the boast is poor; He who has mingled in the fray Of duty, that the brave endure, Must have made foes! If you have [...]
Style – Bukowski
style is the answer to everything_ a fresh way to approach a dull or a dangerous thing. to do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. Joan of [...]
Robert Wood Lynn poems
l am trying to find a way to tell you this. There are things that trying solves but this is not one of them. About the Phones Closing my car door, you always say [...]
Kaduva – movie review
Shaji Kailas's latest Prithviraj production - Kaduva, interestingly has an omnipresent blue glare throughout the movie, almost like a light boy's desperate attempt at stopping the movie from being made. Unfortunately for us, the light [...]
Liberal Decalogue – Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell - Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as [...]
Kaaval – Movie Review
As someone who gets excited every time a Suresh Gopi movie releases and one who watched even Kitchamani MBA and Sound of Boot FDFS, it's possible it were my high expectations that did it for [...]
Katalin Varga – Movie review
Katalin Varga is an immensely watchable Romanian film, a brooding and sulky revenge tale set in the gorgeous mountains of Transylvania. But first a word about villages.
Explained: The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim
The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim I stood for twenty years a chess piece in Córdoba, the black rook. I was a parrot fed melon seeds by the eleventh caliph. I sparked to life [...]
Desire – Stephen Dobyns
What is desire but the wish for some relief from the self, the prisoner let out into a small square of sunlight with a single red flower and a bird crossing the sky, to lean back against the bricks with the legs outstretched, to feel the sun warming the brow, before returning to one's mortal cage, steel doors slamming in the cell block, steel bolts sliding shut?
A Satyr against Reason and Mankind
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, Or anything but that vain animal, Who is so proud of being rational. His senses are too gross; and he'll contriveA sixth, to contradict the other five; And before certain instinct will prefer
Aazhiyum thirayum kattum
Aazhiyum thirayum kattum by Sree Narayana Guru, rendition by T.M.Krishna. Video.
Varane Avashyamund – Movie Review
Varane avashyamund settles the Shobana vs Urvashi question once and for all. The other win is casting movie director Johny Antony as a shrink, anything that keeps Johny Antony busy and keeps him from making movies like Thoppil Joppan and Thappana is a win. Verdict: 2.5 of 5 stars. Good one time watch.
Know a guy named Gabe though…
Angels don't come to the reservation. Bats, maybe, or owls, boxy mottled things. Coyotes, too. They all mean the same thing- death. And death eats angels, I guess, because I haven't seen an angel [...]
Reading Tomas Transtromer
THE COUPLE They turn the light off, and its white globe glows an instant and then dissolves, like a tablet in a glass of darkness. Then a rising. The hotel walls shoot up into heaven's [...]
Ormayundo ee samaram
Solar commission report indicts former Kerala chief minister and top leaders of his party as one of the murkiest scandals in state's history comes full circle.
All omens are lucky
Aiming therefore at such great things, remember that you must not allow yourself to be carried, even with a slight tendency, towards the attainment of lesser things. Reading The Enchiridion by Epictetus.
Sad thing about hard things
Checking the day's mail. Exactly one of these three media items will end up being consumed. Sad thing about hard things.
Milk bottle
One beautiful March evening, on a narrow aisle in San Jose's fashionable Whole Foods Market, I walked past the 100% perfect milk bottle.
Women like you drown oceans
"Once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herself the mother-fucking queen of herself. - how's that for a happily ever after?"
Watcher in the rye
In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.
Making of the President 2016
Nobody in the world is new to Donald Trump, nor to that thing that lives on Trump's head. It is true Trump has said horrible things about minorities, women and everyone who is not Donald Trump.
Keeping up with the Karamazovs
....in my opinion miracles will never confound a realist. It is not miracles that bring a realist to faith. A true realist, if he is not a believer, will always find in himself the strength and ability not to believe in miracles as well, and if a miracle stands before him as an irrefutable fact, he will sooner doubt his own senses than admit the fact.
Yup.
It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.
