Transtromer: We do not surrender. But want peace.
Tomas Transtromer writes lines like "We got ready and showed our home. The visitor thought: you live well. The slum must be inside you."
True crime: Caffey family murders
Like a Russian man who killed over 40 people with deep empathy for a Soviet people who lost their gods and then lost their brotherhood in the post-Soviet era "“ a people who didn't believe any more. He believed the people he killed didn't have a lot left to die.
Forever Young
When the winds of changes shift May your heart always be joyful And may your song always be sung May you stay forever young Forever young, forever young May you stay forever young.
Fear and loathing in America
"Superstar politicians and superstar quarterbacks have the same kind of delicate egos, and people who live on that level grow accustomed to very thin, rarefied air. They have trouble breathing in lower altitudes; and if they can't breathe right, they can't function."
For All a Baby Knows
A baby in the womb has no idea its Mother loves cool September breezes floating through the twilight window
World Cup 2014 – Lets dance!
And that's how it ends, with a whimper. Sad. Onto Russia 2018. =============================== This captures the sheer volatility of this world cup - Ha the gravity of Spain's exit. Fastest [...]
World Cup 2014 TV Schedule
Best World Cup ever for folks in the west coast. Matches starting at 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM PST every day. This is going to be super fun. Oh what fun it was in 2010.
HERO!
On a cold winter night in 78 he drank two liters of Russian tea, went to Red Square before light and wrote on snow: "Brezhnev is an idiot!"
When desi people drink
They drink a lot. Alcohol Consumption in India - details Daily chart: Boozing it up | The Economist.
Elections 2014: Performance of M.P.s from Kerala
One M.P. from Kerala on an average participates in more debates than one M.P. from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Chhattisgarh combined.
Dear Leader Un
How the dictator of a dystopian society with grey, clouded skies can be such fodder for humor is food for thought for hegemony watchers. Meantime there is more Un goodness here.
Bukowski: many people would have to die
that nobody wanted anybody to be strong and beautiful like that
Science Jokes
An interviewer approaches a variety of scientists, and asks them: "Is it true that all odd numbers are prime?"
Peace on earth 🙂
Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Jesus chip in for the kids.
The annihilation of caste – full essay
Socialists of India propound that man is an economic creature, that his activities and aspirations are bound by economic facts, that property is the only source of power.
Humility and Simplicity
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.
If you are going to create – Bukowski
No baby, if you're going to create you're going to create whether you work 16 hours a day in a coal mine or you're going to create in a small room with 3 children while you're on welfare.
An aiport in Aranmula
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
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
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.
Peethambara Congress 🙂
Congress politics and other dysfunctional fun in Kerala
Good read: on education
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.")
Marxism in a nutshell
By Bill Watterson
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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,"