MASCULINE HUMILIATION

 

This is an anecdote from the newspaper yesterday.

The writer met a hotel owner in Rajasthan whose daily routine included a personal battle against gravity to keep his moustache pointed upwards.

While showing the writer his car, the hotel owner took offence at a fairly simple question, "Why did he not drive an automatic?"

His reply was, "If I drive an automatic, then I won't be driving it. It will be driving me."

The writer continues, "Initially I couldn't understand what he meant. But then I realised his local philosophy. The car had to remain under his control. Obedient much  like the ideal wife in his imagination."

"A machine changing gears on its own was a form of masculine humiliation."

Anurag Minus Verma
The Times of India
20 September 2026

EVANA ABRAHAM

 

Evana Abraham

September 17, 2026

Evana's imagination goes wild

                                             Evana's imagination goes wild

                                           It's her whole day's effort

Shara queries                      

We need the artist to explain this. I am art challenged

I respond

I asked her that even before forwarding it.
She said she did that as it came.
That's why I put the caption like that

Shara resigns 

Ahh! We will have to content with that

WRITING OUT A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE - E.L.DOCTOROW

 

According to E.L.Doctorow, writing out a plan for your life, 

"is like driving at night in the fog.  You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make

 the whole trip that way."

Pace Bowling Sensation - M D Niddheesh - Mattakandathil Dinesan Nidheesh

 

Malayala Manorama Sunday Supplement 20September2026

Look at his philosophy.

Do your job, striving to the utmost

Leave the rest to God

M D Niddheesh 

Mattakandathil Dinesan Nidheesh

Can we relate to his statement?

Can we be honest enough to state we are doing likewise?

If yes, we have to go on the way, we are.

If no, we must re-engineer ourselves

ANTHURIUM

                                                                   ANTHURIUM

                                                                     HER EFFORT

                                                          SHE TENDS THEM

LONE HIBISCUS FLOWER AMIDST THE GREEN

                                   

                                 THE LONE HIBISCUS FLOWER AMIDST THE GREEN