By all accounts, it was a brief trip. Even Charles Dickens would have said "It was the briefest of trips, it was the longest of ... hell, who are we kidding. It was a short trip." Leading travel writers would be quick to declare that spending two...

While the seeping wave of the global village has spread cultures, technology, the H1N1 virus, and Hindustani rap songs across the world, it would be rather premature to conclude that we have all become more or less the same. Of course, no one ever...

Now it has been a while since I have updated my blog, and gosh darn it if I'm as uncreative as to blame it on the same old excuse of hectic work schedule, but when your clients and the powers that be toss you across the room and bounce you ...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. They scare the bejeesus out of me. They really do. I wouldn't say I am otherwise the bravest guy on this side of the planet, but I'm not that much of a coward either; and yet, I'm scared shitless of these...

Finally. It's here. The topical season to be jolly. I love this time of year. Within the state of Kerala, this is one time when people set aside differences of caste, creed, status, power, politics, wealth, community, gender, and age to unite in a...