Shorts (short posts)

    March 17, 2024

    The Vagaries of Travelling after 40

    Either there is no one above 40 left in the country anymore, or they are all actively conspiring to avoid…
    January 27, 2023

    India needs to figure out Travel/Transit cards

    India needs to mandate travel/transit cards for all types of public transport across the country to make travel easier and…
    October 22, 2022

    The Story of a Life

    The story of the life of a Nasrani woman from Kerala who spent her entire life working as a nurse…
    July 17, 2022

    What Really Happened to Sukumara Kurup

    A fictional take on what happened to the infamous fugitive Sukumara Kurup, imagined as a crossover between two, movies and…
    June 22, 2022

    A Century of the Nasranis of Central Travancore

    The "migration to migration" story of four generations of a Nasrani Christian family of Meenachil Taluk, Kottayam, Kerala.
    October 3, 2021

    The Kerala Youth and the Congress

    The decline of the Congress party in Kerala is because it has lost touch with who it thinks its supporters…

    Philosophy

      March 2, 2016

      Missing a Train and the Philosophy of Reason

      Human beings are hardwired to always look for patterns and reasons in everything, which is why we keep on wondering…
      October 1, 2011

      The Pale Blue Dot – We Are Nothing.

      Right now, I am feeling incredibly overcome with this sense of overwhelming, stupendous, inexplicable feeling of utter insignificance, that numbing…
      January 4, 2011

      Will Someone Please Pick the Phone?

      When it comes to customer service, it looks like telecom companies in India are on a race to outdo each other…
      January 1, 2012

      My New Year Resolution: To Not to Give a Damn.

      “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” are immortal words spoken by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Scarlett O’Hara…
      January 6, 2014

      Life After Losing my Mobile Phone

      We all have experienced that moment of pure horror when we try to feel our (expensive) mobile phone in the…
      June 14, 2018

      Growing Out of Popular-Culture Afflictions

      The Football World Cup starts today. Yes, the FIFA World Cup, Russia 2018 kicks off in a few hours! I…
      April 29, 2016

      Is Conformism the Key to Happiness?

      The most overlooked among all the philosophical premises of The Matrix is the very concept it is based upon, which…
      July 25, 2013

      16 More Things I Have Learned From Life So Far

      After chronicling the first 17, here come the remaining 16 of the 33 top lessons life has taught me in…
      February 18, 2011

      Jean Jose Palackal – A Tribute

      My dear Jean, Paalu, it has been two years since that fateful day. And somehow, somewhere, I, we have still…
      July 24, 2013

      17 Things I Have Learned from Life So Far

      33 years is not a long time. It is in fact infinitesimally smaller than infinitesimally small in the grand scheme…
      June 14, 2010

      Return to Chocolates

      We all have priorities. Material priorities. Those that we think we will solve all our problems. Like an Audi Q7…
      June 21, 2010

      Cricket, I Unfollow Thee!

      “Dude, who won the Bangladesh – Sri Lanka match in the Asia Cup yesterday?” “Oh. There is some Cricket going…
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