Jairammohan

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• Humble Beginnings – An Origin Story

  

  I know I have provided an origin story of my blog in the ‘About the blog’ section, but then for the sake of newer readers and others who have not checked out... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Guest Post : Happily Ever After

  

  Today my favorite Guest Author takes on another topic which is very close to his heart, and am sure all our hearts as well – the concept of happily ever after... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Happily Murdered – Rasleen Syal – Book Review

  

  Goodreads blurb: Who killed Gulab Sarin?The radiant new daughter-in-law of the influential Mehta family dies mysteriously on the very next night of her... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Back to School

  

  Today’s prompt provides us with an option to take a break from our life and go back to school to master a subject of our choosing. Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Those Fabulous Fragrances

  

  I still clearly remember, it was the morning of February 24th, 2011 when I got off the Aleppey Express at the Punkunnam station at Thrissur. Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Life and Culture – 2014

  

  Today’s prompt was “It’s the year 2114. A major museum is running an exhibition on life and culture as it was in 2014. Write an introduction to the show’s... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Third Time Around – Part 3

  

  << PART 2 >>Things reached a point where kings belonging to the Kuru dynasty, Matsya dynasty, Kekaya dynasty and Srnjaya dynasty became infuriated... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Search & Rescue Operation

  

  Jon had one of the toughest jobs in the world, as part of the Search & Rescue team manning the trekking slopes in the Kulu Manali area. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Third Time Around – Part 2

  

  << PART 1 >>Years later, when the Pandava king Yudhisthira, another cousin of Krishna was performing a Rajasuya Yagna at Indraprastha, both Krishna... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Lucifer’s Lungi – Nitin Sawant – Book Review

  

  Goodreads blurb: An atheist city-slicker unleashed on a medieval holy village…A simpleton village priest’s boy who blindly worships and guards a pantheon of God... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• My Black Wishlist

  

  I have always been impressed with how James Bond has been portrayed on screen, more so in movies that were made before Pierce Brosnan played the eponymous... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Third Time Around – Part 1

  In my earlier series on the Varaha Avatar (read Part 1 here) I had alluded to the curse placed on the doorkeepers of Vaikunta, Jaya and Vijaya where they would... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Jaya – An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata – Devdutt Pattanaik – Book...

  

  Goodreads blurb: High above the sky stands Swarga, paradise, abode of the gods. Still above is Vaikuntha, heaven, abode of God.The doorkeepers of Vaikuntha are... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Guest Post : When I First Saw Her

  

  Today my favorite Guest Author takes us on a walk down memory lane where he narrates his experiences when he first saw his wife. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Wishful Thinking

  

  As the chauffeur pulled the Silver Grey Toyota Fortuner through the wrought iron gates into the semi-circular driveway, I hit on the power button on my iPad... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Sahadeva’s Secret

  Years of meditation and austerities in exile had rendered Pandu, the father of the Pandavas a wise and learned man. He had a premonition of his death and... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• When Death Was Born Again – Part 2

  

  << PART 1 >>The guards arrived at the spot on the next day and surprised to find the holy man alive immediately informed the king about it. Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• When Death Was Born Again – Part 1

  

  Most of us know of Vidura as the wise minister of the court of Hastinapur and as somebody who guided the blind king Dhritarashtra when he governed the large... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Guest Post : Idiots’ Guide to Gymming

  

  I am sure that all of us at some point or the other have at least contemplated joining a gym and exercising to get ourselves in shape, more so, if we work for... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Tables Turned

  

  Today’s prompt was “Are you as comfortable in front of a camera as behind one? Being written about, as well as writing?”Now, anybody who has known me since my... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2014 SELF EXPRESSION