Celebrated Holi yesterday and it was pure madness… random people coming upto you and rubbing colour on your cheeks was a little disconcerting at first, but after a few minutes you get the hang of it and it’s crazy fun after that. I’ve always wanted to be part of the colourful Holi celebrations, like the …
Have you noticed how some things never change, how time seems to stand still when you are with some people. For instance, with the siblings and cousins there’s a timeless ease… we have grown up, got married, changed over the years, yet, at the same time we haven’t. It was the same recently when friends …
Our flight from Chennai was at 4am, so after a small midnight prayer in church, after all the airport drama and the waiting, we finally settled into our seats for the four hour flight to Qatar. I was instantly asleep, and in Qatar after going through a security check again, we boarded the transit flight …
Just got back from a madcap road trip across five countries in Europe and I am still reeling from the effects of the past two weeks. There were about seventy of us on this pilgrimage trip (thirty from my parish) and I was wondering how it would be… We landed in Madrid and traversed through …
Suddenly I seem to be a part of so many whatsapp groups, first the college group was formed and we’re just getting to know each other after thirteen years. Then a school group was created and the faces of school friends with their double plaited folded up braids came rushing in (to my mind’s eye), …
I saw this movie recently while travelling to Chennai in the train and before I knew it I was transported to a sleepy little Italian village on the coast where beauty abounds in every frame. Beauty herself forms a major character, she is everywhere you care to look and that’s what the protagonist Mario (Massimo …
I’ve written lots about my hometown, Nagercoil, in this blog… about how every trip home is like being embraced in earth’s bountiful bosom. So you can imagine my surprise when for the very first time in my life, I felt bereft and speechless at her decrepit state. The past few weeks were exactly like the …
I’ve written about Tyler Knott more than once on my blog… how I came across his poems, how one poem of his evocatively captured all I needed to say after my recent trips, and how the phrasing in his poems is what gets your attention even though you don’t necessarily agree with all that he …
I started documenting my trip here and inspite of nobody reading it, I’ve come to the final post of my 2013 Eurotrip. And there is only one way to describe it, like warm sunshine spilling over my being, shrouding everything in a warm hazy glow. Like Gene Kelley says, ‘There’s a smile on my face …
So this is the November issue of the magazine with a few articles by me. Thomas Rhett’s ‘Beer with Jesus‘ has been included here and I wrote something about the entertainment industry which might be a bit preachy… Entertainment is not what it used to be When you switch on the TV or listen to …