Pablo Neruda – Balachandran Chullikkadu
Chullikad's translation of Tonight i can write the saddest lines
September 2023
April 2023
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 [...]
February 2023
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 [...]
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 [...]
October 2022
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. [...]
May 2022
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. [...]
January 2022
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 [...]
January 2021
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.
June 2020
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 [...]
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
May 2020
Aazhiyum thirayum kattum
Aazhiyum thirayum kattum by Sree Narayana Guru, rendition by T.M.Krishna. Video.