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Tomichan Matheikal
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Endurance of Relationships

Cordialness is more natural to humans than war. That is my experience in general. It may be because my associations with people were severely limited by my shyness and social anxiety which is not exactly introversion. An unexpected encounter with Reverend Joseph Elavanal SDB [Salesian of Don Bosco] evoked a flood of thoughts and memories in me. I had been invited by Orchid Spell Bee to be a judge of a state-level spelling competition for school students.....

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Tomichan Matheikal
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Art dies when...

“Is there any politician who is a poet or artist of any sort?” Anu asks me. Anu – Anushri is her official name – is a former student of mine. She gave up science though she was good at it and took up literature for graduation after which she pursued a journalism course with a prominent media house and then became a journalist. There are a few of them, I tell her. I name Vaclav Havel and our very own Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Anu thinks I am joking when.....

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Tomichan Matheikal
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Yudhishthira turns his back to heaven

Yudhishthira hesitated at the threshold of heaven. They had won the war. But what did they really achieve? Behold this field teeming with kinsmen and friends, Yudhishthira had lamented looking at the mutilated corpses on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Vultures and jackals had started feeding on the bodies of people he knew, he loved, he never wished to kill. What glory lies in a kingdom won at such a cost? His brothers looked at one another. They had no an.....

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Tomichan Matheikal
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The Pope and a Prostitute

I started reading the autobiography of Pope Francis a few days back as mentioned in an earlier post that was inspired by chapter 2 of the book. I’m reading the book slowly, taking my own sweet time, because I want to savour every line of this book which carries so much superhuman tenderness. The book ennobles the reader. The fifth chapter describes a few people of his barrio that the Pope knew as a young man. Two of them are young “girls” who worked as prostitutes. &ldqu.....

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Tomichan Matheikal
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With love and gratitude to Blogchatter

I wrote a lot more in Feb 2025 than in the past many months. The Blogchatter has been responsible for that with their #WriteAPageADay challenge. My association with this blogging community is rather short: just a little over four years. I’m concluding the Write-a-page-a-day challenge with this retrospective post. With their various ‘challenges’ such as Write-a-page-a-day and A-to-Z, Blogchatter gave me a lot of impetus to write regularly. Writing sustains me as a person.....

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Tomichan Matheikal
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Dhruva and Davis: Poles apart

“There’s a story behind Pole Star which is known as Dhruva Nakshatram in our language,” I said to Davis (not his real name), a 14-year-old who thought a bit too much of himself like most youngsters of today. He was with me next to the driver’s seat in my car and I was his driver in his view. “Are you interested in the story?” Davis’s silence told me clearly that he wasn’t. He wasn’t interested in anything except himself and that was the.....

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Drashti Bhatt
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The tall glass of water

After 11 years of marriage, Valentine’s Day starts to look a little different. You realize you don’t need vodka shots anymore, but you need a tall glass of water every single day.This Friday morning was no exception—cloudy skies, sickness spreading through the house, cranky kids stuck indoors, and no plans for celebration.I woke up with a mind spinning in a million directions, the weight of a week’s chaos heavy on my shoulders. I dragged myself out of bed to prepare.....

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Tomichan Matheikal
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Choices

Camus was not against the idea of national obligations, of course. He wouldn’t accept any national obligation that goes against a person’s individual conscience. One’s duty to humanity outweighs duty to the state...

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Tomichan Matheikal
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Sleep and Patriotism

I was about to go to bed earlier than usual because I was feeling terribly sleepy. I had slept relatively much less in the past few nights owing to certain urgent evaluation jobs of my school that had to be completed within short period. However, as I stepped into my bedroom, I was reminded of my duties as a patriot and my sleep left me instantly. My Prime Minister sleeps just three hours a day, as he has told us repeatedly. In a 2019 interview that actor Ak.....

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Sathish
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Techno-Romance

…I start with dots because I do not know where to start and you see only one dot is a stop, add two more to it and it becomes continuation.....

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