My Thoughts
25 Sep 2018
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 […]
25 Sep 2018
Suddenly, the Pope’s visit became the talk of the town. The Divine Love Congress had been scheduled to be held in Bombay from 24 November to […]
