UN has declared today as world Malala day!!!

let the flowers bloom....

good for Americans, good for America, and good for the world

.....is it really good for the world, when the invocation is 'God bless America'?!

Post script: Could you believe Obama getting re-elected has led to increase in gold price in Kerala !!!. This society is incorrigibly sick, and they are spreading its sickness to other part of the country too through gold showrooms. Feels like puking. The worst study case is rich people wedding, it has everything that is shocking.

Earlier last month I happen to attend the Biodiversity meet at Hyderabad, and came across this precocious kid –who happens to be a Malayalee. He has painted many breeds of Indian cattle in an effort to make people aware of the diversity and need for conservation. Children like these gives us hope for future. Bravo to that!!

It’s Britain’s call

I read this article, and the nonsense suggested by one Lord Ahmed. 

Controversial British peer Lord Ahmed has said he believes 15-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousufzai, who is awaiting reconstructive surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, could have been shot as part of a government plot to discredit the Taliban.

Britain must answer why this nonsense is tolerated. What action are they taking against this man? I am deeply shocked and surprised that civilized world should allow such nonsense.  It is heinous. We will be watching very closely what Britain is going to do about this man.    

Karnad lambasts Naipaul: this blogger knows that Naipaul does have penchant for speaking on things that leaves one baffled, sometimes cringing. I recall in Delhi in one show he was quite rude to one panel member. Clearly it is sometimes difficult to tolerate fools but the panel member wasn’t one. I really don’t think Naipaul justified Babri demolition, atleast that is what I gather. This attempt to pigeonhole a writer (who has written some wonderful books) is rather sad. 

“Now Mr. Naipaul has written three books on India. If you read them, you find that not even one of them contains any reference to music. He has gone through the whole of India without responding to Indian music. I think that only means that he is tone deaf."  

 A writer has all the right to choose what to include what not to include in his/her writing. I find it shocking that RK Narayan’s fiction doesn’t contain any reference to lower section of society and their existential predicaments (this true for MT Vasudevan Nair too). The world he created seems to contain no such social blemishes. Does that make RK "social deaf"? How is Malgudi (though charming) quintessentially Indian village?


Mr. Karnad was actively involved in Malgudi Day’s adaptation why didn’t he question that, I am not even alluding to his Sarswat Brahmin upbringing. Mr. Karnad needs to apologize for his diatribe or need to put a better defense for his claims. These are juvenile arguments and doesn’t augur well for the writer of his caliber.  

Naipaul should be celebrated through his writing, particularly his early fiction. Such charming worlds he weaved...