Bukowski: many people would have to die
that nobody wanted anybody to be strong and beautiful like that
January 2014
December 2013
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.
November 2013
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
October 2013
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