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The Cream of Spirits

Hello world. As our author is down with fever he assigned me with providing you with some hot statistics to keep you warm. There are many alcohol surveys doing rounds in the online world. I depend on the one conducted by IWSR (International Wine and Spirits Research)on 2006 for this story. 50 million litres! That is the quantity of spirit produced across the world every year. Although only half of it is  official as in many countries alcohol is produced … Continue reading

The Field of Dreams

Photo Tales, the new photo feature series of my journeys. The first tale is about fields. The travel bug bit me long back when I was teaching in Alathur(Palakkad). My college was surrounded by rice fields too tempting for my city-bred soul. The crimson evenings were tinted blue with peacocks that perched on the fields. The mist hugging close to the paddy fields in early mornings. See the long road sandwiched by the green. Don’t you want to pedal through … Continue reading

The Loser’s Game

First published at yentha.com, ‘The Loser’s Game’ was a well-acclaimed piece written by the author on World Suicide Prevention Day. Here the writer infuses the old story with new observations and fresh memories about his late brother, telling us more strongly that suicide is a loser’s game. There were signs all over the place. On the rose plant that you did not water for the whole week, on the crumbled papers in the wastebasket in your room, on the hug … Continue reading

GUESTHOUSE: Why Arranged Marriage Sucks?

When I hit 24, like any typical malayali parents, mine too started panicking. “It’s time to marry off our daughter,” they agreed maybe for the sixth time in their 27 years of marriage. So began the search—I was registered into all the matrimonial sites they ever heard of and marriage bureaus, brokers and relatives were alerted too. I shuddered. Protesting was a bad idea since that would only panic them more and make them do something stupid. Hence I feigned … Continue reading