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Srividya Thazhathu

THE BODY INN

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I had been to a conference in Lugano recently where ‘body’ was discussed so zealously that a dear friend commented with a nip of sarcasm that ‘by all means body has arrived, again”. I didn’t know that body had been missing for sometime, honestly. Body as an absentee landlord is definitely [...]

July 6th, 2009 | Category: body | 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)
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Srividya Thazhathu

Dhoni’s Achilles’ Hair

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I don’t know whether Mahendra Singh Dhoni has ever heard of Samson and Delilah, that classic fable of zionism and misogyny. Maybe he has seen the DVD of the 1950 Cecil de Mille adaptation (its poster tag, “HISTORY’S MOST BEAUTIFUL AND TREACHEROUS WOMAN!” (Caps in the original)
Anyway, what has it got to do with Dhoni?
Hair.
Samson, [...]

June 20th, 2009 | Category: Sports | 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (14 votes, average: 3.21 out of 5)
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Srividya Thazhathu

Kiss of the Spider Woman

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Does the 2009 parliament election mark the autumn of heterosexual vote bank in Keralam? I think so.
The hundred thousand majority of Shashi Tharoor in the Thiruvananthapuram constituency could be signifying just that. A substantial number of that must have come out from various closets. It’s high time Yogendra Yadav and Mahesh Rangarajan sit up and take [...]

June 15th, 2009 | Category: Politics | 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (14 votes, average: 3.07 out of 5)
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Srividya Thazhathu

CPM, CBI, CIA AND OTHER DEMONS

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Keralam, I have always felt, is an enormous saloon designed exclusively for men.
A dingy joint jam-packed with receding hairlines, thick mustaches and prosperous beards in various shades engaged in political chat round the clock.
No wonder, it immediately reminds one of those god forsaken humid towns in Marquezian tales bustling with insomniac mosquitoes, idealist revolutionaries, lampoons, [...]

June 13th, 2009 | Category: Politics | 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (8 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)
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