Nostalgia
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Life Experiences
An Ode to Orkut
There was a time not so long ago which today would be difficult to even imagine having existed. I am…
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Life Experiences
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…
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Life Experiences
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…
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Pop Culture
Goodbye Sukumari Amme… A Tearful Tribute
Malayalam cinema today lost one of its pillars. One of the “shilpis” and evergreen actresses of Malayalam cinema, S. Sukumari…
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Bangalore
Bangalore – Now (2012) and Then (2000) – Part 2
Continuing from Part 1, a trip back in time to see how landmarks in Bangalore well-known today looked twelve years…
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Bangalore
Bangalore – Now (2012) and Then (2000) – Part 1
Everyone agrees that Bangalore is not what it used to be, say, 20 years ago. But the fact is that…
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Life Experiences
Why I Do Not Shop Online.
It is boom time for e-commerce sites in India. Today, you can buy almost anything utilitarian and consumable online and have it…
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Pop Culture
The Adventures of Tintin – My Childhood in 3D
With The Adventures of Tintin, Spielberg didn’t just create a motion picture. What he did was to bring my childhood…
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Pop Culture
Review: Transformers (3) Dark of the Moon – Depressing
When you are making a movie about giant alien robots, make a movie about the damn giant alien robots, and…
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L I F E
Wear Sunscreen – And Feel Happy, Sad, Alive!
“Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” This is the title of an original essay written by Mary Schmich…
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L I F E
30 More Things That Will Make You Feel Old – India Edition.
You are older than you think! Making you think many things happened “recently” is a trick played by your sub-conscious…
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Life Experiences
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…
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