Yes that is how I want to call this case because Kerala is also my home state in India and this case is about the lack of value for human life. The case is that a millionaire Tobacco businessman who lives in one of the high profile luxury communities in Kerala rammed his Hummer on the guard and beat him with an iron rod because he delayed in opening the … Continue reading Punish Nisham – Kerala’s Case on the ‘Value for Human Life’
Philip Levine’s poems were a filled with graphics that made the voiceless heard. The imagery of Detroit, the factories and the labor. He painted pictures of sweat stuck to the coldness that blanketed an era. For generations to come readers will walk through Philip Levine’s words feeling those hands that held a lot of heavy life before the pen found its way through. Here is his “An Abandoned Factory, Detroit” The gates are chained, … Continue reading Philip Levine the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Dies at 85
The Alabama cop who encountered and threw down the 57 year old Suresh Bhai Patel under suspicion has been arrested. But SureshBhai is partially paralyzed. We can all understand how the family feels as we all have had our parents come here from India and gone for morning and evening walks and if something like this happens to us we know how devastating it can be. I … Continue reading Alabama Cops encountered and leaves a 57 year old Indian Grandfather Partially Paralyzed; What can we do as a community?
Three Muslim students in North Carolina were shot and killed; the details and motive are still surfacing but it is clear that the murderer Craig Hicks is an atheist or anti-theist. Since I identify myself as an atheist and a secular humanist, I am extremely saddened reading the news that the murderer is an atheist and the victims were religious. May be his anti-theist thoughts had nothing … Continue reading Can atheism instigate violence on a personal level?
All major parties in India roll their eyes in political disbelief because it should not have happened. A very new party with no political legacy, doctrine or specific religious support, how can they win. When they won election last time most parties attributed that as an accident, a fluke (and BJP blamed congress) but then this party AAP committed a never heard of and unpardonable mistake … Continue reading How can AAP win? Clearing the political disbelief
The AIB Knockout show has been in a lot of controversies. I saw the recording of it on YouTube. Did I like it? No I did not enjoy it. I felt they were using vulgarity for the sake of it and forgetting if it was indeed adding to the entertainment. They were competing on who can be more nasty. But should they be allowed to do it? … Continue reading AIB Knockout – Comedy or Vulgarity
When I started writing this the question came to me‘who is the common man’ and then the RK Lakshman’s character came to my mind. He is old but today after AAP sweeps the Delhi election I also saw a younger common man standing next to the older one and joining hands they say “After so many years finally we have a victory that can bring us the change”. … Continue reading When the Common Man Wins the Delhi Elections
I once used to be in the camp that considered Valentine ’s Day as something immoral. Growing up in India during the 80s and early 90s we did not get to see much of valentine’s day celebration. The first taste of it was during my REC Engineering years from 89 to 93 when we had something called Rose Day which I never knew back then that it signifies Valentine’s … Continue reading Valentine’s Day through my memory lane – From Opposing to Celebrating it
Reading a quarrel (they like calling it that way) between a professor and his former student regarding art and life by itself is an interesting theme. And when you have experienced a glimpse of that quarrel live in person the book becomes quite dear to you. David Shields is the author of fifteen books and Writer in residence at the University of Washington and Caleb Powell … Continue reading I Think You’re Totally Wrong – A Quarrel
Neeraj Pandey is an excellent story teller and he makes his movies to get the viewer well glued in. So when BABY was released we had to go. Akshay has been doing a lot of forgettable stuff recently and I had decided I am not going to waste time and energy on Akshay Flicks again. But it was Neeraj that got me into the theatre. First … Continue reading Hindi Movie ‘BABY’ does not repeat Neeraj’s magic in ‘Wednesday’ or ‘Special 26’
Vinod Narayan 