This is a view from my apartment to the next building where construction work is going on. This picture that you see is a view of the 13th floor. Sorry for the vague image but this is the closest I could get. It shows construction workers, without any safety equipment whatsoever, working at odd heights...

There should be a genuine reason why they are boldly at it, I’m damn sure.What shall I call it - “Youth empowerment” ? Yes, that’s a comparatively lighter title for a commendable effort from Manorama. Manorama is all set to do a “jan jagran” on the “blue tooth...

As mentioned at BlogcampKerala, as an initiative to popularize “citizen blogging” and to provide a platform for passionate bloggers with social responsibility, the KCB project (Kerala Citizen Bloggers) is now live at www.keralacitizenbloggers.com To me along with the five authors who’ve...

Today there was a program on one of the Malayalam channels, where the host dressed as an advocate, was fighting his way up against the “MMS-mobile phone-cyber culture mafia” in Kerala. It was indeed a thought provocating program especially in the light of Kerala Government banning (or trying...

Yea - virtually it’s just not possible, but that’s how I feel like when I tune just another news channel on TV. These days, there are just too many of them isn’t it? There’s NDTV, CNN IBN, uhhmm….hmm… well you get the point there right? Too many of them = Less recall...

Last day, on my quests to explore Chennai city, I took one of the local trains so that I could feel what it is like traveling by a local train. This concept of local train was pretty new to me since I haven’t seen anything like that in Cochin or Trivandrum. Moreover, I’ve seen it in some...