Keralal*

I grew up adoring you,
In a tongue strange to the nation,
Most Sundays, except a boring few,
You adorned a telly station.
Be it Asianet or DD4,
Tragedy, comedy, never shoddy,
Left us begging for more,
Intoxicated by thespian toddy.
Though others cluttered the screen,
Mammooty, Jayaram, Siddique and Mukesh,
For this impressionable teen,
You epitomised owur Mallu Pradesh.
From the violence in Kireedam,
To the smiles [...]

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Hostelgia

There are times when I look back into the murky past with something that approaches fondness. Of course, when the concerned past was once the present, I couldn’t wait for it to whiz by. I suppose hindsight is indeed senti-senti. Anyway, one-time Fellow Blogger uploaded a couple of Pilani-ian snaps on Facebook a few days [...]

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To Khan? Doh!

I came across this piece of good news in my untiring coverage of Shahrukh Khan. He’s been given an honorary 5th-degree black belt in Taekwondo by the Korean government “even though he knows nothing of the sport”. This is in addition to serving on NASA missions and securing Gayatri Joshi. Hmm. Christmas has come early [...]

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Orthodonsick

In tooth I know not why I am so sad,
It wearies me but I don’t say it wearies you,
But how I caught it, found it, came by it,
What stuff ’tis made of, whereof ’tis born,
I am yet to know.
Who is not familiar with the famous opening lines of Demure Chant of Dentists? Antonio’s dental anguish  [...]

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Calyanam

Stupid code refuses to right itself. So, in order to maintain a shred of sanity, I’m going to talk about my recent trip to San Jose Kutty in order to attend a wedding. The regular reader of this blog will remember that a similar occasion presented itself in Chicago exactly one year ago. Almost all [...]

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Dye Another Day

Reflection in the mirror,
Shows a strand of silver,
Poking through the black,
Throwing age out of wack.
Is it stress or the vile air,
Causing a premature scare?
Or is six-and-twenty
The new old-and-benty?
With joints that creak,
And premonitions bleak,
Of teeth unable to crush
Nought but Cerelac’s mush.
Watery eyes that I curse
Register a fuzzy Ms. Universe,
Who’s forgotten in a snap,
Mistaken for an underfed [...]

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Tome Reader

My old roomie was renowned in Pilani for being an all-environment reader. He’d read while walking to classes and back, during meals in the mess, and even while…ahem…using the facilities (ed: close encounters of the first kind, not the second, mind you!). In Urbana, something drastic might have happened because I saw little evidence of [...]

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Tan Tan-a Tan

On those days warm,
Soaked by solar power,
They descend as swarm,
Partake of golden shower.
Lounging by pool,
Bodies bared to sky,
Ray-Ban’d to look cool,
Skin set to fry.
They’re pale to begin,
But ain’t satisfied,
Lack of melanin,
In occidental hide.
Brown they desire,
My colour au naturale,
Will pass through fire,
To become femme fatale.
I glance and sneer,
At supine ones,
Brimming with cheer,
For all Injuns.
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Naked Fun: License to Swill

Listen to me, my dearies. I officially live in a disreputable apartment complex, which will work wonders for my sagging street cred. ‘Twas exactly a week ago that my sleep was disrupted at 2:30 am by the shouts and screeches of co-educational frolic at the communal pool. Quite evidently, the revellers were a tad tipsy [...]

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Agnus Dei

Another gem for metal geeks from the stable of the +91 Renegades. Yes, we are THAT jobless.
Blacken the Cursed Sun,
Walk with Me in Hell,
Bastard Son,
To Bid You Farewell.
The Four Horsemen,
For The Revolution,
Meadows of Heaven,
Ready for Salvation.
Here Is Pure Hatred,
Triple Corpse Hammerblow,
Better Off Dead,
Guerilla Radio.
Lovesick for Mina,
The One Brooding Warning,
Wings of the Hydra,
Thank God for the [...]

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