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They sell their souls and four years of their life on the promise that they will be bestowed some kind of world-changing abilities of technological mastery, only to realize later that they have been trapped, left hanging in a vicious limbo for all eternity with a hollow soul, no discernible skill sets, being unsure of … Continue reading →
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When you are making a movie about giant alien robots, make a movie about the damn giant alien robots, and not about human histrionics, teenage angst and love life crises! Leave those to drama movie makers. As with all sequels, the movie lost track of it’s core plot and characters. I had hoped against hope … Continue reading →
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Yesterday, India’s uncrowned king of bubblegum literature, Chetan Bhagat, decided to celebrate Father’s Day by recycling an old “locker room” joke about child custody and a Coke vending machine. Minutes after the tweet was published, all hell broke loose and a shitstorm of outrage ensued on Twitter with all kinds of people, trolls, bots and … Continue reading →
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The 20th movie in the Bond series, the fourth and final one to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional English (MI6) secret agent. A landmark movie as it was the last in it’s current running timeline for the past 40 years. Bond goes rogue defying M to find who had sabotaged his mission and landed … Continue reading →
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“Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” This is the title of an original essay written by Mary Schmich which appeared in a Chicago Tribune column in June 1997. The contents of that column later contributed and became famous as lyrics to Baz Luhrmann’s cult music video: Everyone is Free (To Wear Sunscreen) and … Continue reading →
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You are older than you think! Making you think many things happened “recently” is a trick played by your sub-conscious to make you think you are young and kicking. Inspired by XKCD’s Epic diagram that makes people think they are old based on movie release dates, and then 40 things that make you feel old, … Continue reading →
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As said in Part 1 (Recommended reading), The Island Express was only the second express train to run from South Kerala and today, a full 50 years later, remains the only daily train on the route(!), and has been reduced to running fail machine. If the Railways in the 1960s saw a reason to introduce … Continue reading →
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If you are one among the gazillion Malayalees who head to/from the hallowed city of Bangalore (Bangloor in Malluspeak), or if you have spent considerable time commuting in the southern half of Kerala, you surely will not need an introduction to the 16525/16526 Kanniyakumari – Bangalore – Kanniyakumari Express, or more (un)popularly known by it’s … Continue reading →
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There seems to be a serious misunderstanding on what “corruption” means in India. It seems that we think only politicians and bureaucrats are and can be corrupt, and corruption as such starts and ends with bribes, misuse of power and ‘looting’ large sums of public money. Look at these: Corruption as defined by Google and … Continue reading →
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The days were harsh, hot and dusty, the nights cold and windy. The vast swathes of Middle Earth, the land of the race of Desis, men of honor, valor and culture, were overrun by vast white armies of the Goras, creatures of great cunning and greed. The Desis were forced to subjugate their honor and immense wealth to the … Continue reading →
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(This post was written when the original ridiculous name was announced, long before the team was renamed “Kochi Tuskers Kerala”. This remains the most widely read post on my blog, and hope it has contributed something towards the name getting changed :)) Some things are just bound to fail. Ever since its inception, the Kochi IPL team has … Continue reading →
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We all know that the answer to the ultimate question is 42. But if you are a Malayali (Mallu for short) this answer will not be enough. Because unlike the ‘general’ ultimate question, the ultimate Mallu question is known and has been haunting Malayalis for years of their waking lives, night and day, while drunk and … Continue reading →
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