Rakesh Vanamali

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Live On Forever Ry (6 votes)
Posted 13 years ago under Offbeat > Memoirs
The Ramparts of 2012 (3 votes)
Posted 13 years ago under Offbeat > Memoirs
Rendezvous with The Rain Boi (8 votes)
Posted 13 years ago under Offbeat > Memoirs
The Times Literary Carnival 2012 (6 votes)
Posted 13 years ago under Offbeat > Memoirs
Real World Calling (3 votes)
Posted 13 years ago under Offbeat > Poetry
Wikileaks and beyond (16 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under Nation > Political News
The Spidabutt (44 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under Offbeat > Humour
Goodbye my Lord! So long! (24 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under Social > Environment
Charity does begin at home (78 votes)
Posted 16 years ago under Social > Poverty
Winter comes calling (7 votes)
Posted 17 years ago under Offbeat > Memoirs
Passers by in Life (11 votes)
Posted 17 years ago under Offbeat > Memoirs
The Presidential Novel (9 votes)
Posted 17 years ago under Nation > Political News

Latest posts by Rakesh Vanamali

Remembering Trichur Kilimangalam P. S. Gopalakrishnan
It feels deeply personal and privileged to write about Trichur Kilimangalam P. S. Gopalakrishnan. Not because my tribute or memoir would do justice to chronicling his life any better than what has already been done by so many others, so wonderfully well. But, in writing a few words of gratitude for...
Posted on 3 May 2023 | 11:19 am
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Twerpa the banker
Twerpa calls herself a banker. How she become one is a puzzling story altogether. Having neither the qualification nor the aptitude, she pulled strings with 'friends in high places' to get herself the opportunity - trumping so many others who, undoubtedly, would have been so much better at the job.
Posted on 2 February 2022 | 6:00 am
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Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri's Whereabouts is the reflection of a certain kind of life, which, you could say, is engagingly involved but detached, immersed, yet removed. A bold but guarded existence that is keen, observant, perceptive, and practical, living in bare reality, far from pretensions or wishful thinking...
Posted on 31 January 2022 | 6:00 am
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Indo-China border - The current situation
China's quiet but steady plans of increasing it's military capabilities are not going unnoticed! Reports emanating from the Pentagon, early last week, have confirmed that it has successfully deployed long range CSS-5 missiles close to the Indian border while also having developed contingency plans t...
Posted on 22 August 2010 | 5:53 pm
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WikiLeaks and beyond
You'd have to have been utterly ill-informed if you didn't notice the storm created by WikiLeaks over the past week in connection with the leaking of some 92,000 classified documents pertaining, among others also to the war in Afghanistan, what the United States terms as the war on terror! Almost ev...
Posted on 1 August 2010 | 1:09 pm
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Gen. Kayani, Pakistan and 2013
In what has not happened in the history of Pakistan and it's armed forces, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan has been given a 3 year extension, and will now remain in uniform until 28 November 2013, long after the tenure of President Zardari whose term of office ends on S...
Posted on 25 July 2010 | 2:57 pm
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Rakesh Vanamali

blogs from Ooty

Redefining Oblivion

Imaging Oblivion

Thoughts of a Geo-political Observer

Rakesh Vanamali's latest posts on IndiVine

Live On Forever Ry (6 votes)

The Ramparts of 2012 (3 votes)

Rendezvous with The Rain Boi (8 votes)

The Times Literary Carnival 2012 (6 votes)

Real World Calling (3 votes)

Wikileaks and beyond (16 votes)

The Spidabutt (44 votes)

Goodbye my Lord! So long! (24 votes)

Charity does begin at home (78 votes)

Winter comes calling (7 votes)

Passers by in Life (11 votes)

The Presidential Novel (9 votes)

Latest posts by Rakesh Vanamali

Remembering Trichur Kilimangalam P. S. Gopalakrishnan

Twerpa the banker

Whereabouts

Indo-China border - The current situation

WikiLeaks and beyond

Gen. Kayani, Pakistan and 2013

Latest posts by Rakesh Vanamali

Remembering Trichur Kilimangalam P. S. Gopalakrishnan

Twerpa the banker

Whereabouts

Indo-China border - The current situation

WikiLeaks and beyond

Gen. Kayani, Pakistan and 2013