Learning and Unlearning of Dr.Jekyll and Madam Hyde.
Noololyako chenni, noololyako the base voice of the singer was crooning. Asking his glamorous lady love, why doesn’t she spin? “ratiyillelo jaana ”she replies, that she needs a spinners wheel...the dialogue goes on in the nasal twang of the folk singers. Once upon a time these singers would never enter Durbar-e-khaas. But the song is …
World toilet day The UN has declared Nov.19th as the world Toilet day. We have lived and grown up with toilets, of course during our younger days when we travelled we never used public toilets since we were worried about hygiene with the advent of pay toilets those are taken care off too. The impact …
My workspace seemed to filled with IT personal and people speaking of AI for while I assumed AI was Air-India then I learnt it was artificial intelligence. I am told by these kids who create computer programs that computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no …
The Monsooned Malbar coffee Let’s take the coffee pledge for the coffee workers. Centuries ago when coffee beans were transported to Europe in ships, six months of travel caused an amazing transformation to the seeds. The monsoon caused the beans to swell and change colour, it acquired an intensely mellow flavour. Now this magic is …
Marie Von Tropp finds it easy to say let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start with. Obviously she does not know, coffee is the right place to start with. With the wafting fragrance of coffee, the day begins and as the coffee falls into the stomach it triggers a commotions. …
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Storytellers and psychologists have explored the rivalry of a child with the same sex parent. In the Indian context we have some very interesting examples Dr.Devdutt Pattnaik likes to call it a reverse Oedipus complex where the father makes a demand of the son. Somehow there are some interesting patterns here. Let us look at …
I am sitting at Mango meadows sipping my coffee between patients. Sometimes it is quite an insight. this morning I had a patient who has messed up his life for the past 40yrs and wants a cure in 40mnts. I realize we are so comfortable in the default habits that we have created for ourselves …
September 15th is an interesting day, with Free Money day, and the International day of democracy. Despite it being a Sunday, I am parked at 91 springboard of course with my friends, mulling over brewed coffee. What on earth is actually democracy. Of course my friends Merriam-Webster do refer to it as the govt. Of …
