Month: June 2011

Europe, Facts and Fiction, Groningen, International, Netherlands, P U Krishnan, Travel

When the dark clouds disappeared!

To be or not to be? That was the question. Whether it was nobler in the mind to go out for an evening walk or sit at home, succumbing to the pressures of nature? It was a dark and cloudy afternoon and the Sun seemed to be incapable of driving away the widespread dark clouds. …

Domestic, Europe, Facts and Fiction, Humor, In real life, International, Netherlands, P U Krishnan, Travel

A pleasant surprise

It could be the entrance of a park attached to some monument or it could be the backyard of some city railway stations. You would see them, scattered all over these places. “Look at these pictures… these replicas… cheap and best” you hear the parrot-like repetitions of these words, though only one in a hundred …

Facts and Fiction, Groningen, Netherlands, P U Krishnan, Poems

I know not which way I must look…

As you step out of the house, you get a warm welcome (the bone chilling winds at times notwithstanding). The trees which invite you stand in a row, maintaining equidistance between them. You can rest assured of a couple of other things, a pond and those doves and ducks of all sizes. You just forget …

Facts and Fiction, Humor, In real life, P U Krishnan, Television

Those Special Days

Apart from festivals, there are several ‘Days’; I mean special days like birthdays, father’s day, mother’s day and so on. In India there are festivals and festivals, commonly celebrated and since there is no dearth of festivals commencing from January to December, we don’t attach undue importance to those ‘days’ mentioned above. Not so in …