The Reality of Appearing Apolitical
This election was probably the first one in my life where I had no idea what was going on in the Kerala political scene at all. I voted though.
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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 were.
How to Save and Revive (Kerala) KSRTC Part 1
The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has a long and illustrious history that precedes even the state of Kerala or India. It starts in 1937 when the Travancore State Transport Department was constituted by HH Sree Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, the Maharaja of Travancore. The first buses were imported from England. Post independence the TSTD was incorporated as an…
A Humble Historical Analysis of the 2014 Election Results
On the clammy evening of the 3rd of June 1991, during one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of independent India, a cargo van broke down with a flat tyre on a busy highway leading to the Sahar International Airport in Bombay. The van contained a highly classified and secret cargo, the existence of which and the…
Rs.5 ka Corruption
This is a real incident that happened a couple of days back. It was a lazy afternoon and I was on a 500C (ITPL – Banashankari) Bangalore BMTC Volvo bus, traveling from Whitefield to Marathahalli. That was when this dude, around 25-ish years of age, adorned with a Software company ID card all all got…
Sachin Tendulkar in Rajya Sabha: Why this Kolaveri?
Outrage everywhere as Sachin Tendulkar, India’s Cricketing God, decides to accept an invitation from the Congress Party to join the Rajya Sabha as a nominated member! We all know that outrage is our national past time, and we spend considerable time outraging on anything and everything usually stupid things but never on those things which…
Save Mullaperiyar, Save Kerala and Tamil Nadu!
If reports are to be believed, many parts of the state of Kerala are staring down the barrel of an extinction event-level disaster in the form of a ticking water-time bomb called the Mullaperiyar dam. This disaster, if it happens, will have no parallels in recorded human history and will have horrifying consequences that will haunt…
India’s Middle Class Revolutionaries
(NOTE: 1. Read the entire thing before outraging and shouting abuses. 2. This is not an outright pro/anti post, just trying to drill down the facts of what is going on. 3. I am not a supporter of any party and no one asked me to write this.) All over India, people are outraging against…
INR 1.76 Lakh Crore ($40 Billion)
(Text in blue are links to other pages like Wikipedia explaining more about the highlighted text. (Not ads, never!) You may click on them, linked pages will open in new tabs/windows. Promise :) ) The most widely quoted currency amount in India these days seems to be 1.76 Lakh Crore Indian Rupees (0r 40 Billion US Dollars). The reasons for this…
Nothing Is What It Seems!
“Nothing is what it seems!” – Walter Burke (Al Pacino), The Recruit In the mediocre-at-best spook movie ‘The Recruit’, CIA chief trainer Water Burke (Al Pacino) kept reminding his new recruits that in the CIA, “Nothing is what it seems!” In other words, everything is an eyewash, what you see and what you have been told is…