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Meat shops, Kebabs and a massacre
Some thoughts on March 23. // A paean to Indian Secularism. On 23 March, 2003, 24 people were lined up and shot, somewhere in India. The...
Mar 25, 20174 min read


Meat shops, Kebabs and a massacre
Some thoughts on March 23. // A paean to Indian Secularism. On 23 March, 2003, 24 people were lined up and shot, somewhere in India. The...
Mar 25, 20174 min read


Reviewing Public Sector Employment in Kerala
I had written an article on Swarajya almost a month ago, about PSUs in Kerala and how Public Sector Employment is viewed in the state. I...
Mar 24, 20174 min read


Reviewing Public Sector Employment in Kerala
The Public Sector is no longer the primary employer in the organized sector. I had written an article on Swarajya almost a month ago,...
Mar 24, 20174 min read


100 crores for building theaters and 10 crores for Library Council: Warped Priorities?
Kerala has one of the leading HDIs in the Country, which is even comparable to developed nations. The continuous investments in the...
Mar 22, 20173 min read


Kerala’s Budget exposes the state’s lacunae in acquiring land.
The 2016–17 Kerala Budget has been in the news including international media for promising a “right to internet” forget that it is by and...
Mar 21, 20172 min read


KSRTC: Is there a way forward?
The Finance Minister of Kerala, Mr. Thomas Issac has provided a special package to the perpetually Loss making KSRTC, in a bid to revive...
Mar 20, 20174 min read


Explaining Electoral Success
The UP Electoral results have shown how unreliable and partisan Political Journalism is. To rely on ex-post facto judgments of Why BJP...
Mar 18, 20173 min read


A few notes after the BJP clean sweep in Uttar Pradesh
Also known as gloating. This time is one of the very best times to be alive as a Supporter of the BJP, or by extension, non-“liberal”....
Mar 12, 20173 min read


Popular perceptions, Sexual Assault and the Law
I have found a general lack of information or understanding on how our legal system handles sexual assaults on women and issues thereof;...
Feb 20, 20175 min read


The Liberal World Order, under crisis?
Nopes. Xi Jinping, the new leader of the ‘free world’ The results of the Brexit and the US Elections – combined with the rising tide of...
Feb 17, 20174 min read


Trump is done.
Trump on (his hopefully) secure iPhone. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it. Trump’s impeachment is something that everyone is...
Feb 16, 20173 min read


The titles used by the Cholas; An Examination (Part-I)
While researching for the three articles that I wrote (1, 2, and 3 respectively), I came across the interesting titles the Chola Kings...
Feb 6, 20177 min read


The Supreme, Alcohol and the Republic (and some kids)
The Headline and News story goes thus: An unlicensed (not that that mattered) beverages outlet (for the uninitiated, beverages sell...
Feb 4, 20173 min read


The Legacy of Barack Obama
As 8 years of the Obama Presidency comes to close, I look at his legacy, and what he leaves for Trump & the world at the large. What is...
Jan 21, 20172 min read
The System is broken.
Regarding the Mass Molestation at Bangalore & related incidents. The system is broken. But you don’t need me to tell you that. You know...
Jan 5, 20173 min read


Dhulgarh: The Great Deception
In a post on 31 December, blogger extraordinaire Arnab Ray noted that Media “[Do not report] anything that does not conform to...
Jan 3, 20172 min read
A tribute to the Cholas :An Introduction A little over 10 months ago, I published a small article…
A tribute to the Cholas :An Introduction A little over 10 months ago, I published a small article called The Lost History about how many...
Dec 20, 20163 min read
God’s Own Polity
Originally appeared on the NUALS Observer During the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, one of BJP’s (read Modi’s) key campaign themes was to...
Oct 10, 201610 min read
Why Kalari faces some (basic) hurdles in its popularization
(To the uninitiated, Kalari is a martial art that has its origins in the Ithasa(mythology) surrounding Kerala. It is a martial art...
May 31, 20162 min read



