Visakh Nair's Blog

A few weeks back (28th of April to be exact), my dad came to me with a USB. I had never seen it before in the house, and I was more surprised to find out that it was a 32 GB one. The casing was all the more attractive. It looked like this:







Seeing the surprised look on my face, my dad explained that it was given to him as a gift by one of this students around a year back. Now, the USB was

I was a little bit apprehensive when I downloaded 'The Dirty Parts of the Bible' to my Kindle. I am no fan of any kind of religious fiction, but the idea of a re-telling of the story of Tobias and Sarah from The Book of Tobias appealed to me. And once I read the following conversation in the first few pages, I was completely hooked onto it.

Jesus: 'I want you to preach.'
Malachi: 'But I don't

My collection of horror short stories, A Night in the House, will be free on Amazon from 23rd to 25th January. Go ahead and download it now.

Those who don't have a Kindle don't worry. You can install Kindle reader on yourPC/Laptop,iPhone,iPad,Android phones and tablets.

Here's what the reviewers say:"The writer really knows how to pull you in and keep you on the edge of your seat!""It was a

Kerala basedjewelrygroup Joy Alukkas has released a new ad with Suresh Gopi doing all the talking (there's no Vidya Balan this time). The ad is well shot, but the background music is copied from the Hollywood movie, Requiem for a Dream. Wonder when people will grow up!

Check it out for yourself.

Joy Alukkas Ad:





Requiemfor a dream OST

Last week, hell broke lose when Instagram updated it's Terms and Conditions and said they will have the perpetual rights to sell user's photos (public ones) without any payment or notification. With this one change, Instagram was poised to become the largest stock photo site in the world, and they were about to achieve it without spending a dime for the photos.

The outcry from users started

The tagline itself is enough for any horror fan to become inquisitive. Naturally, being a horror writer myself, I got in touch with the author and he sent me a copy to read. And here's my review (some mild spoilers ahead).




It's 1890's. Abraham Stoker, aka Bram Stoker, visits a doctor who stays in an asylum in a remote of corner of England to deliver a letter. The letter conveys some bad news,

My collection of horror short stories, A Night in the House, is for sale atAmazon Kindle Store. Here's the blurb:

'A Night in the House is a collection of eight horror stories, set in the background of different towns and cities of India. There are stories set in the teeming and congested metropolis of Chennai and Pune, as well as lonely villages and forests of Rajasthan and Kerala. There are

My article on garbage management techniques in Sweden and Mexico City was featured in the Open Page of The Hindu newspaper dated November 25.

Below is a scan of the paper cutting.

Set in 18th Century colonial India, The Tattooed Fakir tells the story of the uprising by fakirs and sanyasis against the British rule, from aviewpoint of the villagers and the sahibs of Jahangirpur, Bengal.

When the wife of Asif, a peasant, is kidnapped by the local Indigo plantation owner MacLean, he sees only one way to rescue his wife - to becomea fakir. He runs away to the nearby

Ever since H.G.Wells wrote When the Sleeper Wakes, dystopian societies have been a favorite subject amongst authors and readers alike. Twentieth century's writers painted vivid pictures ofmultitudeof such societies and they let our imagination run wild.

After Battle Royale of Koushun Takami in 1999, the standard of dystopian literature took a deep plunge. With the release of the The Hunger