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Me and My Madness: January 2009
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Me and My Madness. Saturday, 24 January 2009. Save the Green Planet, my sensory organs and a revelation. The protagonist of the movie is crazy in the world’s perspective. Five minutes into the movie he kidnaps a corporate honcho who he thinks is an alien who will endanger the whole planet and its species. The movie then went on for about ninety minutes to show the ruthless torture that our ‘hero’ (protagonist is definitely the better word) subjects the villain (? I then thought how wrong generalisations ...
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Me and My Madness: Moving On...
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Me and My Madness. Thursday, 16 June 2011. Two months short of a year of hiatus - too bad, I know! But then life is like that I guess. Sometimes it flows, as smooth as Dairy Milk Silk, and sometimes there are far too many roadblocks. But then, I came home! That is always a happy place to be, or so I thought! The syndrome that I spoke about in. Post had hit third degree by then - come on, it was almost six months since my course had finished, and here I was, doing NOTHING! So there I was, sitting comforta...
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Me and My Madness: May 2009
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Me and My Madness. Tuesday, 26 May 2009. Pehli Pehli Malayalam Movie Review! I am delighted as I write this post. It is surprising that I never wrote about my thoughts on any Malayalam movie before! It's not like I watched a lot of them while I was in Hyderabad. Still, there were a couple of them. May be because they were so rare. May be I would just sit and relish the experience of hearing Malayalam on DTS (and not Hindi) rather than blog about it! Anyway, better late than never, right? Five of them -.
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Me and My Madness: April 2010
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Me and My Madness. Thursday, 15 April 2010. The end of an era! It's been an awfully long time. I don't want to make any excuses this time. I can recollect at least ten different occasions when I thought, "I should write about this for MAMM," but I never sat down to do that. Sheer laziness. Nothing else. It does not mean I have not been writing though. Take a look at this. In case it helps! On the course front, my choice of stream, I understand, was one of the best decisions in my life. Being the disi...
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Me and My Madness: September 2009
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Me and My Madness. Friday, 11 September 2009. Leening's Manipur, Our Manipur. Request: Please read the whole post before you make any judgment about me. :) I love Manipur! Leening Meetei is my classmate at University of Hyderabad. If there is one word that describes him, it's Manipur; he eats, drinks and sleeps Manipur. When a research or writing assignment is given in class, no effort needs to be taken to guess what Leening would do. It would invariably be about Manipur. They attack with detesting looks...
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Me and My Madness: Back in my nest...
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Me and My Madness. Wednesday, 26 May 2010. Back in my nest. All over - the exams, the course, the madness. And I am home. During the entire month of April, when my classmates were frantically going about applying for jobs, I told myself: you deserve a break, go ahead and take that, please don't enter the rat race. And now, here I am, totally enjoying this 'doing nothing' phase, but finding it difficult to answer people's questions. Every second person I meet invariably asks: So what next? About planning ...
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Me and My Madness: The end of an era!
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Me and My Madness. Thursday, 15 April 2010. The end of an era! It's been an awfully long time. I don't want to make any excuses this time. I can recollect at least ten different occasions when I thought, "I should write about this for MAMM," but I never sat down to do that. Sheer laziness. Nothing else. It does not mean I have not been writing though. Take a look at this. In case it helps! On the course front, my choice of stream, I understand, was one of the best decisions in my life. Being the disi...
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Me and My Madness: February 2009
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Me and My Madness. Saturday, 7 February 2009. Home is where thou hearth is! Statutory Warning : This post is very long. As much close to my heart as well. Most of us would agree that 'home' is not just a word or a concept. It is a world in itself. My version is that it rests in the security of our hearts with gallons of emotions compressed inside. I have stayed away from my home for the past six years. It has been a life changing time for me. Resignation from Google which was another kind. Definitely not...
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Me and My Madness: August 2010
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Me and My Madness. Sunday, 15 August 2010. Missing home and myself. The Indian Independence Day dawn is just a few hours away. And I am in a country that is not mine. I have come here before, as a tourist. To see as many malls as I could, to eat as many previously-not-eaten-delicacies as I could, to visit as many relatives as I could – the objectives, the bent of mind, everything was typical. It felt great while it lasted. My country doesn’t pay as much money. With soaring house rents and real ...My coun...
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The Nino Effect: August 2009
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Friday, August 28, 2009. The Funeral Diaries - Part I. Om taccham yoravrini mahe. Sham no astu dvipade. Om shantih shantih shantihi. She's watching them, and they her, although it is two different things now. Her sons: the eldest, the middle one and the youngest. The fourth is far away: separated by time, distance, words and circumstances. Om sahasra shirsha purushaha. Sa bhumim vishvato vritva. What are they thinking, she wonders. Do they remember my anger? But he bothered me so, the eldest one. A n...
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