Recently on the day Argentina lost to Chile in the Copa America finals, violent clashes reportedly erupted between some fans of Brazil and Argentina. To all those wondering ‘what is so great about football fans rioting, don’t they always do?’, the thing to note is these clashes happened in Kerala, which, in case you needed to be reminded, exists in… Read more →
Back from a long vacation last week, I naturally had a lot of official work to attend, and the most urgent one turned out to be watching Udta Punjab, the controversial movie that has bravely thrown light on the stuff that a major cross section of Punjabi populace seems to be tragically addicted to: Swear words. Almost every third sentence… Read more →
(As promised last week, I pick up from where I left — on the hilly highway between Munnar and Thekkady). The drive from Munnar to Thekkady defies description, mostly because you can hardly see anything even 10 feet away what with it being mostly misty. But, in between, when the weather clears, as if some invisible magic hand has moved… Read more →
After a vacation to a chilly hill station, every one comes back with an incident that they wouldn’t want others to know. Mine is: I mounted Sri Devi. But give me a few seconds, there is an innocent and reasonable explanation to it. One is, as is it usually happens in such cases — here I can only speak for… Read more →
Last week I went for an eye checkup. I get this annual eye test done every four or five years. Left to myself, I will have this annual test once a decade or some such. For, I hate this drops-administered dilation of pupils after which for the rest of that night everything looks bright at the edges and splotchy in… Read more →
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