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I am a confused person these days, to be honest have been in this state all my life, except for brief periods of revelations when I thought I had discovered my calling. These interludes were rather brief and interspersed at various stages of the four odd decades of my existence on this planet. I can […]

Kennedy, no not JFK, but our very own indigenous Tamil anna; our Tamil friends are unique and they adopt the names of dignitaries from across the globe, naturally it is a mark of respect for the country in question as also the person. We have quite a few of them, Stalin for example. Can you

How often have we had this feeling that in a discussion, it seems we are banging our heads against the walls literally? I am sure we have all gone through this ordeal a number of times. Sometimes it is the stupid sales clerk who just doesn’t listen to any reason but just goes on blabbering

These chicks were huddled up  in the roots of the bushes in Wellington (Nilgiris)

SHOEGATE At the outset let me put the record straight, this tendency of suffixing a “gate”, after any ignominy is an American phenomena post Watergate; this of course is for the uninitiated. I know present generation, gen X may not be aware of this fact. Now getting back to this shoe business, our footwear suddenly

Games We Played as Kids: Where was Boredom! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, an adage which the colonial masters not only believed in but also practiced it. This is amply illustrated by the sports facilities in small towns, which were princely states in the pre-independence era. The resident military officer

At the outset, I must apologise for plagiarising the title from Stephen Spielberg, the oldies would surely recall his first contact with the aliens in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, before he introduced “ET”, the Extra terrestrial. Hairdressers or Barbers, as we used to refer to them, back then, also bear a remarkable similarity

Isn’t it a strange quirk of fate to have landed me here at Ferkessoudougou, even in my dreams, one could not have heard such a tongue twister for a name. But this is what providence is all about, no? I was destined to come here, probably in my last birth, there was something that I

Bell’s Palsy(Sometime Jun 09)I wonder how many of you are familiar with this medical mumbo-jumbo, frankly I wasn’t until of course it decided to pay me a highly unsolicited visit, one fine day, no not one of those fine days really. In the 42 odd summers that I have been here on this planet of

Streaks of ViolenceToday City hospital scene presented a true reflection of the state of violence within each one of us, a grim reminder of the state of moral bankruptcy where we have landed ourselves in. While I waited for the specialist for his advice with my sister, a doctor herself, there was commotion from somewhere