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  • A Reason for Treason.

    A Reason for Treason.

    The morning sounds of a typical southern house was on. Mallamma making coffee,  her husband who in a rural set up would have been called “Aiyaa’ (these days it was “Saar ” or “Sirji” depending on where he was stationed, or where his children were stationed) going through “The Hindu”. Now Mallamma was very diligent…

  • Uncle Sam

    I always found the reference to United States as Uncle sam very handy. Particularly when I have to make my digs at the Bay area Behanji’s or New pastures of the SK-Dabha (the slang my father and his friends had for south Canara Brahmins hostel at Chennai). This day in 1813 this became an accepted…