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Bobby Kunhu

Old Joe McCarthy is Visiting

Standard Disclaimer: All the characters depicted here are fictitious. Any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely unintentional and coincidental
Statutory Advisory: The contents here might be unsuitable for minors, people with chronic heart condition and pregnant women.
Author’s Disclaimer: The author is not responsible for the existence or non-existence of ghosts. Belief or [...]

Bobby Kunhu

One Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

These are difficult times to be recovering from any kind of flu, especially if you are literate and/or have access to any form of mass media. I am neither an epidemiologist, nor a medical anthropologist. These are ramblings literally inspired by feverish delirium!! And it is fairly deliberate too that I am writing this at a [...]

Bobby Kunhu

The Empire Lives on

“Since when has idiocy been a bar to advancement in Politics”
The sub-text that runs through Robert Harris’, Imperium, is that politics – more particularly, democracy has not transcended the petty power manipulations and hegemonies since the Roman Republic. Reminiscent of the Sergei Eisenstein classic , Ivan the Terrible, Harris’ novel could be set in the [...]

Bobby Kunhu

Queering religion

Some years back, one of my good activist friends – very prominent, secular and politically articulate quoted her daughter to indicate that she had “no problems” with homosexuality as long as it did not involve her children or siblings!!
In 1996, during the initial presentation on “Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation” for a seminar course on [...]

Bobby Kunhu

Amen

A preacher went on and on with his sermon – he thought that he was doing a great job – and as part of a well-rehearsed dramatic pause, he asks, “So friends, what more do I need to say”. A confident voice shouts out from somewhere in the middle of the [...]

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