Latest postings by Abraham Tharakan
The sleepy little town that Bangalore was when I
landed there in 1951 to join college has grown into a huge metropolis of 6.5
mill ...more>>
Australia’s original image as ‘Penal Colony’ slowly faded away
after the World War II. People had forgotten that once it was ...more>>
A joke heard in Kerala during the elections: Son: Father, what is the Indo-American Nuclear Pact? Father: I don’t know much about it, so ...more>>
Bright, sunny morning in the
village. Or a sleepy afternoon. You hear the beat of a single chenda (Kerala
drum) in the distance. F ...more>>
The dead – heroes,
innocents, and culprits – have been buried. The smoke from the funeral pyres
have merged with the air. The haunting ...more>>
While watching for hours together on TV the
latest terrorist attack on Mumbai, I was thinking, on the basis of a study I
had done earlier, ...more>>
Let us forget the communal strife in Orissa for a moment and
look at a natural calamity the state faces repeatedly. Frequent tidal wave ...more>>
