Ennamo Vagaiyay Varuguthu Maane

This February, I cooked up a list of resolutions which with great difficulty became  a post on my Malayalam blog . Quite a lot has happened since; for example, I'll admit that my Malayalam was terrible when I wrote that post and that it has improved ever since. I thought I should write a post on how well I have lived up to these "expectations". Expectation I: Take my studies seriously . When I wrote that post, I was indeed another person who did absolutely nothing of relevance between hearing the date of an exam and walking into the exam hall. I think I spend more of my time these days studying. Expectation II: Learn about and do new things . I don't know. I learned Urdu, to read and write Tamil, picked up a bit of Persian, studied music and gained an audience ( gasp  maybe). I also gained some philosophic insight into myself, my religion, and needless to say, my religious fervour has changed from what it was last year. Expectation III: Don't let a...

I have come to conclude that it is the fate of a majority of blogs, diaries, journals, and the like to be written in great detail once the habit starts, and almost entirely forgotten about in due time. This blog, following two lengthy posts written for the sake of writing, has been left without an author since May. It is December now, and the year is drawing to a close. As I do year after year, I have kicked a few New Year's Resolutions up, with absolutely no pondering over their completion. Maa phaleshu kadacana , after all. I have not lost my habits: my sentences persevere to be long, and annoying to most. Perhaps very little has happened, and even less that deserves to be written out on a blog. Or has something happened? In fact, I wanted to script a memoir, an account of my life in the past months. On the reason for my hiatus (as distinct from the conclusion from the first sentence in this post), on what it has been like for Aravind Suresh, and on his continuing journey towar...