Dr CV Ananda Bose

25 Sep 2018

Game for a challenge, always

As Administrator of the National Museum, Dr.C.V.Ananda Bose speaks about heritage, new trends in museum culture, Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple and his career Dr. C. V. Ananda […]
25 Sep 2018
WHEN SINGING BIRDS SNEEZE(SOUND OF SILENCE)
That was a tragic sight. Children going to school with school bags on their back collapsing on the road and dying. Speeding cars getting involved in […]
25 Sep 2018
A DIRGE FOR THE EARTH?(SOUND OF SILENCE)
Has a dirge been written for the earth? This is not a question arising out of the romantic imagination of a poet. But a finding of […]
25 Sep 2018
Thereby hangs a tale(REAR WINDOW)
I was born into a fairly small family, of hardly eight children, you know. As the Bard of Stratford upon Avon puts it, thereby hangs a […]
25 Sep 2018
Lingo of the Mutes(REAR WINDOW)
Valiamma had an intimate pal at home, Chathi the cow. The way she conversed with her suggested their intimacy. Valiamma seemed to know the nuances of […]
25 Sep 2018
A Liberation hubbub(REAR WINDOW)
A rare kind of protest wave lashed the length and breadth of Kerala during my boyhood.  A socio-political tsunami of sorts that still continues to be […]
25 Sep 2018
In praise of Broom (REAR WINDOW)
Near the Mannanam bridge service boats would stop by. Pilgrims from the Kuttanadu region get down on way to the Mannanam church to pray in front […]
25 Sep 2018
Himalayan blunder(REAR WINDOW)
Everyone then had only one spirit within. Boiling patriotism.  Burning national fervour. India was attacked.  1962. It was the shocker of a lifetime to the Indians […]
25 Sep 2018
Just a minute, Mr. Hippocrates (REAR WINDOW)
Mannanam at that time had only one hospital— if you are to take that pronoun in a strictly allopathic sense.  Institutions practicing other forms of medical […]