Information Why do we need to want to know what is happening outside our line of vision, all the time? Why do we need so much information? Is it important that we, sitting at home, at work or with our families or friends, get updated information of whether Christiano Ronaldo got married or Lionel Messi’s…
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I spent five years studying in Kollam, Kerala. In the Kerala of that period, college union strikes gave us a lot of time to either be at home or hanging around outside college, with friends, in Kollam itself. Kollakadavou, is my home town – calling it a town in the late 70’s was indeed a…
20202020A legend : I started following cricket after I received a reply from Mr. Joseph Zachariah, my Prep School House Master in June 1972. I had written during my monsoon break and mentioned that I did not know how to spend my days at home. Fatally, he suggested that I follow the Unofficial Test match…
20202020Why this ? My mother, Kunjuannamma Varghese or Ammukutty, ( Mummy to me) had a way with Pazhanchollu. It was part of her way of either saying something happy, scolding you, geeing you up or just for a laugh. While I was young and the recipient of many of these proverbs, I found that I…
20202020What does this mean? Grow old means to gradually age and advance in years over the course of a lifetime. It refers to the continuous, natural, and biological process of living long enough to reach an advanced stage of life, accompanied by physical, psychological, and social changes. That is what a dictionary said it is. It did…
20202020The person More than a decade has passed since I met her. A tumultuous decade filled with a few remarkable highs and mainly deep lows. we never spoke too much with each other. However, the little we spoke was always pleasant. Not because we didn’t want to but it was just how it was. From…
20202020What is the family house concept that was prevalent in India? When people in my home state Kerala ask me where I am from, I reply that I am from a small town near Mavelikkara, called Kollakadavou and near that from a small ‘muri’ Kadaikadu. Why do I say that? It’s because my family home…
20202020When we produce a product, that we expect to function properly, we do not leave anything to chance. We do not want to see something happen to the product and say – ‘Gosh, that was unexpected’ ! The best products work as per the specifications of the manufacturer and wear out as expected. So, what…
20202020https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/kuwait-apartment-fire-many-killed/article68280816.ece Remember, we do not have enough information about what happened in the fire in June, earlier this year, in Kuwait. Why don’t we have information? Well, it’s because Kuwait does not permit freedom of the Press, or Kuwait and migrants don’t matter to us. If you were to file an RTI petition with the…
20202020Many of you may be familiar with the statement that this post will be referred to by. Now, when I read this after I heard it spoken by the government on TV, I sat and thought about the statement. Why did this statement sound so vague and without merit? A few days later: A few…
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