The river, in reality, a canal dug up to connect the Meenachil River to the boat jetty at Kacherikadavu, flows near my ancestral house in Karapuzha, where Jacob, my youngest brother, lives. We got together recently before its demolition to be replaced by a brand new two story house when…

As you live your life, you come across people who contribute in improving your skillsets, influencing your worldview and changing your perspective of life. You get a conviction that your life would have been very different had they not come across your life. …

I am reading Harish Mehta’s book ‘The Maverick Effect: The Inside Story of India’s IT Revolution’. The book describes how the software business, facing the uphill task of making politicians and bureaucrats stuck in an analog industrial mindset understand the intangible nature of software products and services, formed a guild…

In 1982, the Department of Science & Technology (DST), realizing the importance of starting a research programme in Plasma Physics and Thermonuclear Fusion, established the Plasma Physics Programme (PPP) in the Physical Research Laboratory under the Department of Space where a programme on basic Plasma Physics had been nucleated in…

Time flies, flows, events happen, life goes on with interminable and insufferable regularity all around you while you live in a stupor. Suddenly it is the last days of 2022. We have now lived in Kottayam for a decade after spending close to forty years in Ahmedabad. My family, wife…

Indigo’s flight from Pune to Kochi lands at Kochi at an ungodly hour, almost close to midnight. My reliable driver was at the airport and we started the long, arduous drive along the winding roads, touching Perumbavoor and Muvattupuzha on the way to Kottayam. The streets and shops were well-lit…

The genius of the Gothic period was the invention of the pointed arch and the corresponding ribbed vault to create openings in the wall without weakening the structural integrity of the building. Many developments in Gothic architecture sprang from this solution. …

As a young boy studying at the CMS College High School in the Northwest part of the Kottayam town, I and my school friends would go on long walks to explore that part of the town on Saturday afternoons after school. We would end up in strange places and would…

The Guardian, reviewing Quentin Tarantino’s Cinema Speculation [1] says that “he likes looking under the bonnet and pulling at the fabric, showing how a film was put together. As a critic, it transpires, Tarantino writes exactly as he speaks, in a torrent of information and opinions; fuelled by breathless enthusiasm…