The Truth About Me-self

Ahm! I've been long wondering how I could share this with you until I found this site called www.tinypic.com. Nothing much to brag about but this is a video project in my graduation days in which I was given a chance to act in a short film titled 'The Rejected'. "Given a chance" is actually an under statement. Actually they came to me as a last resort because none was ready to take up the role. And why? 'coz the role needed the actor to play the part of a Gay! And yes, like in any other part of the world, same-sex relationship is as much a hot topic in India. Though there are people who boasts themselves to be very open to this, in reality, I've seen the same people twitch their eyebrows when they come across someone who admits themselves to be a gay or a lesbian. Now, let me not take any hypocritical stand here. I, personally, don't give a damn about who sleeps with whom but me-self being a 'straight' when it comes to sexual orientation, I...

I was cleaning up my shelf today morning and I stumbled up on a piece of memory from my graduation days. This is a book titled 'Aadyaksharangal' meaning 'The first letters', a compilation of 10 poems in Malayalam by one of my class mates, Manu and three short stories in English by me-self. The book was published by another one of our college mates. It wasn't a huge success as we expected it to be. The 100 copies (you can see how much of a modest and experimental attempt this was) that were printed were hardly sold out. I remember a couple of my friends walking around the campus trying to sell it like it were some fancy products. No marketing techniques worked. The books lay stacked in our shelves for days. The problem was it's pricing. It came out with a price tag of Rs. 20.00. Now, I was always against this. Though I never studied economics or marketing, I'm a keen observer of the market movements and was quite (I still am) convinced that the books would h...