Monday, 29 July 2013
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Short Story: A Bend in the Lake
The first morning back at
our lakeside ancestral home in Kerala after sixteen years in the US, I woke up
with a premonition that something unusual was about to happen. I looked around
for my wife and six-year-old son. They were not in the room.
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Monday, 15 July 2013
Good 'Bye to good governance
Not a day
passes in our country without a mishap or a scam. In fact we keep churning out
so many of these it’s become hard to keep a count or track of them.
Consider a
few:
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Back to Gingee, the fort of love and valour
My post History: Gingee, a fort of love and valour published on July 29, 2009 with superb photos by KO Isaac, was quite popular. A few days back I received a comment on it which is reproduced below. It is interesting and self explanatory.
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Thursday, 4 July 2013
A piece from the past
This photo was taken in 1921
by Clain and Perl studio, Madras.
It was commissioned by the Basel Mission. That is why the women have their
breasts covered during a period when that was not the practice for the low
caste.
Wednesday, 3 July 2013
The Experience of Handling Banga Bhawan Control Room for Uttarakhand Floods
Today (3rd July 2013) I am back to my normal office duty after being a part of the " Banga Bhawan Control Room" from 19th June to 2nd July. This control room was set up at the "Banga Bhawan", West Bengal Govt's state guest house, to monitor the search and rescue operation of the tourists from West Bengal who were stranded in Uttarakhand. Some of us from the Office of the Resident Commissioner in New Delhi were handling the control room, while of number of other people, including our Principal Resident Commissioner Sir, had gone to Uttarakhand to handle the ground level situation there. More
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