Poetry

February 2012

Kerala History: Glimpses from 1956 to 2011

By |2024-06-09T12:53:25-05:00February 4th, 2012|Good Read, India, Kerala, Papa Bear, Poetry, Politics, talkies, Trivandrum, Trivia|

Because rather than big events, we have focused on big patterns. And while we disagree on a lot many things here - political, cultural, developmental, social, and personal, I hope we all agree that Kerala got it mostly right in the past 55 years. Because Kerala is the No.1 state in India, here we go, and as always we would like to hear your thoughts.

November 2011

Life of a day

By |2011-11-25T04:35:54-05:00November 25th, 2011|Poetry|

But there are so few days as compared to people, not to mention dogs, that it would be surprising if a day were not a hundred times more interesting than most people.

August 2011

Red

By |2011-08-19T00:32:33-05:00August 18th, 2011|Kerala, Poetry|

The shirt was white. like snow. elegant like a city dweller. though - as I spread it over my hands, I noticed the wear and tear of intense torture

March 2011

Are you sure…

By |2011-03-17T20:14:06-05:00March 17th, 2011|Poetry, Trivia, Video|

....the best thing that ever happened to television is LOST. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vn2hlXVDZQ Oh, look around you Look down the bar from you at the  faces that you see Are you sure [...]

February 2011

Marginalia

By |2011-02-10T13:57:24-05:00February 10th, 2011|Poetry|

A few greasy looking smears and next to them, written in soft pencil- by a beautiful girl, I could tell, whom I would never meet- "Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love."

December 2010

Remembering Lennon

By |2011-01-27T18:04:08-05:00December 10th, 2010|Poetry, Trivia|

He was the man of peace but admitted to being violent in the past - to being a ''hitter'' of women. When idealists are found to be flawed, as they always are, it is invariably used to discredit their ideal.

November 2010

August 2010

The Best Cigarette

By |2011-02-10T13:53:19-05:00August 18th, 2010|Poetry, Video|

Smoking used to be sexy, it used to be a sign of that creative energy symbolized by Albert Camus and Hemingway and Picasso and Guru Dutt and MT Vasudevan Nair and a thousand other literary geniuses. Smoking isn't sexy anymore. Cigarette smokers are outcasts in almost all walks of life.

Apni aazaadi to bhaiya

By |2010-08-18T22:21:22-05:00August 15th, 2010|India, Poetry, Politics, talkies, Video|

Boring isn't just the only problem but he clearly eluded the core issues of public distribution, price rise, and made a quarter-hearted plea to the naxals - which forget the naxals, cannot even bring my angry four year old cousin to table for talks.

June 2010

The misFits

By |2010-06-17T20:57:03-05:00June 16th, 2010|Poetry|

The following belongs to “About me”. If there was ever a piece I could relate to, completely, its this. Just that I haven’t written it. And I don’t even know [...]

November 2009

100 percent perfect girl

By |2012-12-17T23:02:05-05:00November 16th, 2009|Poetry|

One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo's fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl.

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